¡¡¡¡The area that Ichak pioneers, the composition of the management team, the psychological health of the team, is the great management frontier of the 1990's. There's only one guy there, and it's Ichak. He is to young companies what Benjamin Spock is to child rearing..
Adizes Methodology
The area that Ichak pioneers, the composition of the management team, the psychological health of the team, is the great management frontier of the 1990's. There's only one guy there, and it's Ichak. He is to young companies what Benjamin Spock is to child rearing.
George Gendron £¬Editor-in-Chief, Inc. Magazine
Adizes has provided us with the most powerful tools and processes to manage change. They make complex and sensitive operations ¨C such as the design of our new organizational structure ¨C into a process in which everyone can participate, influence ¨C and most of all learn. Both politicians and employees have participated and are very impressed by how synergetic this process can be. We now have a culture of Mutual Trust and Respect in our organization and a sense of ownership for what has been achieved.
Jan Reitehaug, Chief Administrative Director, The Municipality of Rana, Norway.
We chose Adizes because they are the very best partner to organize and run the necessary processes to produce predictable business results corporate wide. They operate with an easy to understand, yet powerful concept; they provide real organizational participation; they produce solutions, not reports ¨C and we can be operative from day one!
Eivind Krokmo, CEO Agder Energi
In the past year we have increased sales by 70%, reduced operating costs, increased profitability and have significantly improved the climate in our organization. There is no question that much of the credit for this belongs to the Adizes methodology.
Don Boroian - President, Francorp Chicago, Illinois
People exhibit different characteristics at different periods in their lives; so do corporations. Dr. Adizes articulates these stages as no one has done before; will provide you with insights about your corporate organization that will make you immeasurably wiser.
William F. Farley - Chairman, Farley Industries
It was absolutely successful! We went in somewhat skeptical and came out exhilarated. We gained a great deal of focus and gained individual as well as team responsibility.
Ernest Fleischmann - Executive Vice-President & Managing Director L.A. Philharmonic
The Adizes methodology has helped us solve many structural and functional problems. I believe it is the most advanced management methodology in the world today.
P.N. Gerolymatos, - President Gerolymatos S.A.
Adizes has helped us think as a corporation. Before, each of us acted to represent his own division. Now we operate as a team.
Fernando Hilsenbeck - Vice-President, Industrias Villares, Brazil
Adizes' insights are as applicable to personal life as they are to management.
Harvey Mackay - author of How to Swim with Sharks
You are one of the few management consultants who has converted a whole array of theory-based concepts into unusually practical guidelines for managers. And even more impressive, you have integrated these guidelines into a comprehensive system of management. Furthermore, this tour de force is centered on a lifecycle concept that zeros in on a widespread source of management difficulties.
William H. Newman ,Samuel Bronfman Professor Emeritus, Columbia University Graduate School of Business
Dr. Adizes' methodology not only provides an extraordinarily effective means to build a functionally effective organizational structure, his approach¡­allows functional changes¡­to occur in a morale-building environment.
Loren Rothschild - President, American Protection Industries, Los Angeles
The Adizes Executive Development Program gave me new and effective ways to deal with persistent and difficult management decisions.
Lee Ruwitch£¬Publisher Miami Review
Adizes is one of the truly great intellectual innovations of out time. The draws from the past, while he looks to the future. He cuts through pretentious management principals to the core of what it takes to bring about effective change in complex organizations.
Kirby Warren - School of Business, Columbia University
Your methodology appears very useful in many situations that arise in the process of political decision-making and your approach to problem solving is a tool that I am sure many people in political life will find helpful.
David Oddsson - Prime Minister of Iceland
The U.S. foreign policy world - as well as the international community as a whole - would benefit greatly from a deeper understanding of Ichak Adizes'' insights and theories, I know Dr. Adizes well and have seen him in action. He is a marvel of business, and is destined to be a wonder of the world.
Ambassador Kenneth L. Adelman
The Adizes method helped create a climate to generate better ideas, but the Adizes process also helped us generate a climate where they can be better implemented¡­the best thing that has happened has been the development of mutual respect among team members.
Tom Monaghan - Founder, Domino's Pizza, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Dr. Adizes' theory and practical methodology, which I have been practicing for 10 years, has been one of the reasons that we have grown from $12 million in sales to $750 million in sales without any outside equity financing.
Stewart Resnick - Chairman and President, The Franklin Mint
Profound in its simplicity. It has made me a better manager through a better understanding of my strengths and weaknesses, and then confidently developing a complementary management team.
Charles R. Schwab - Chairman, Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. San Francisco, California