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Ichak Adizes 
Corporate Performance Expert and Author of Managing Change

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 How to Transition from Entrepreneurship to Professional Management
 Composing Your Top Management Team
 Concepts on the Leading Edge
 Correctly Analyzing Situations and Problems
 Corporate Lifecycles: The Pursuit of Prime

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Ichak Adizes' Key Accomplishments Include . . .
Ichak Adizes is the founder and Professional Director of the Adizes Institute and creator of the unique program for managing change that bears his name. Dr. Adizes consults to business and political leaders throughout the world in the fields of conflict resolution and management of change. The Adizes Program for leading organizations to Prime performance has been used successfully by over 1,000 organizations worldwide, ranging in size from Fortune 100s and nonprofits to startups and mid-sized companies. As an advisor to foreign governments, Dr. Adizes has consulted or lectured to the Prime Ministers or cabinets of Israel, Sweden, Greece, Brazil, Ghana, Iceland, Mexico, Macedonia and others. Dr. Adizes lectures in four languages and has spoken in more than 42 countries. His work and writing have been featured in leading journals and newspapers, including Inc. Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, The New York Times, The London Financial Times, Investor Relations Daily, Nation’s Business and World Executive’s Digest.

More About Ichak Adizes . . .
He is the author of seven books that have been translated into 22 languages in 50 editions. His most recent book, Managing Corporate Lifecycles (1999), is a revised and expanded edition of his 1988 work, Corporate LifeCycles: How Organizations Grow and Die and What to Do About It. An acknowledged classic in management theory, it was selected one of the 10 Best Business Books by The Library Journal. His other works include: Self-Management (1975); How to Solve the Mismanagement Crisis (1979); Mastering Change: The Power of Mutual Trust and Respect in Personal Life, Family, Business and Society (1992); Pursuit of Prime (1996), The Ideal Executive(2004), Management/Mismanagement (2004) and Leading the Leaders (2004).

Awarded his Ph.D. by Columbia University, Dr. Adizes has held appointments as Visiting Professor at Hebrew University (Jerusalem), Tel Aviv University, Stanford University and Columbia University. He also served in a tenured position at the John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA, where among other achievements he established the Management of the Arts MBA program. Executive Excellence, one of the most prestigious business magazines in US ranked Dr. Adizes 29th on the 2005 Excellence List of the 100 Top Leadership Consultants! Dr. Adizes is currently Professional Director of the Adizes Institute.



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“Adizes helped us generate better ideas and a climate where they can be better implemented.”

-- Tom Monaghan, Founder and Past President,
Domino’s Pizza

“ The Institute's methodology has enhanced internal communications by encouraging habits of participatory management and by helping us accept change as normal and as continuous opportunity for the bank."

-- Samuel H. Armacost, Former CEO,
Bank of America

“ Adizes has been an invaluable resource and insightful advisor in my efforts to restore entrepreneurial vitality to mature business organizations throughout the world.”

-- Steven Miller, President and CEO,
Shell Oil Company