Ichak Adizes

Mastering Change

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  • Alyona Dobrolyubovahas quoted4 years ago
    We will stop encountering problems only when there is no more change.
  • Alyona Dobrolyubovahas quoted4 years ago
    Success is a function of external integration divided by internal disintegration.
  • G.Ghas quoted4 years ago
    Build a climate of Mutual Trust and Respect in your organization by having: 1) common vision and values; 2) a (PAEI) diversified structure; 3) a collaborative communication and decision-making process; and 4) mature people who command and grant respect and trust.
  • G.Ghas quoted4 years ago
    That’s why Lone Rangers develop gofers, Bureaucrats have yes-yes clerks, and Arsonists prefer subordinates who behave like claques.

    If you want to know who you are, watch the impact you have on others. Be sensitive to how people react to you. Watch how your subordinates and peers behave. Be open to receiving feedback.
  • G.Ghas quoted4 years ago
    very successful corporate president once told me, “I have three doctorates although I never finished high school.” I asked him how that was possible. “Easy,” he said, “I hired them.” Know-how is easy to get; you can hire good people. To be is much more difficult. Being trusted and respected is critical for being a leader.
  • G.Ghas quoted4 years ago
    they are is more important than what they know.
  • G.Ghas quoted4 years ago
    Winston Churchill observed, “Capitalism is an unequal distribution of wealth. Communism is an equal distribution of poverty.”
  • G.Ghas quoted4 years ago
    the United States, decisions are made quickly but implementation is slow. In Japan, it takes a long time to make decisions, but implementation is fast.
  • G.Ghas quoted4 years ago
    The philosopher George Santayana said that a fanatic, having misunderstood what the reality is, doubles, triples, and quadruples his efforts. That’s how he gets stuck deeper and deeper in the sand.
  • G.Ghas quoted4 years ago
    As George Bernard Shaw said, “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
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