Isak Adizes
Ichak Kalderon Adizes is a global management consultant, academic, and author known for contributing to organizational development and corporate lifecycles.
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Isak Adizes
- Name
- Ichak K.
- Born
- 1937
- Birthplace
- Skopje, North Macedonia
- Occupation
- Management consultant and researcher
- Nationality
- Israel · North Macedonia
- Fields
- economics · corporate governance
- Education
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Languages
- English · Hebrew · Serbian
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Ichak Kalderon Adizes is a global management consultant, academic, and author known for contributing to organizational development and corporate lifecycles.
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Isak Adizes (born 1937) is an adviser, economist and entrepreneur, among other activities and a national of Israel and North Macedonia. The adviser was born in Skopje.
Isak Adizes studied at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The adviser worked for University of California, Los Angeles. Isak Adizes is active in corporate governance and economics. Languages used include English, Hebrew and Serbian.
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• Name — Ichak K. Adizes • Born — 1937 • Birthplace — Skopje, North Macedonia • Title — Founder of the Adizes Institute • Occupation — Management consultant and researcher
Early life
Early life
Ichak Adizes is an Israeli-American. He was born in North Macedonia. As a Jewish child during World War II, he hid as a Muslim for protection in Albania. The story was documented in a film entitled I Want To Remember, He Wants To Forget. In 1948, Adizes moved with his family to Israel, where he served in the Israel Defense Forces. After completing his undergraduate education, he moved to the United States in 1963, where he obtained a doctorate degree in business from Columbia University.
Career
Career
From 1967 to 1982 Adizes was a tenured professor at UCLA, then at Stanford, Tel Aviv University, Hebrew University and Columbia University's executive programs. Adizes founded the Adizes Institute, which is based in Santa Barbara, California. He is well known in the corporate world for developing the PAEI management model in early 1970s, that categorizes managers into four key roles Producer, Administrator, Entrepreneur and Integrator.
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Personal life
Adizes is married to Nurit Manne Adizes. They have six children and live in Carpinteria, California. He plays the accordion.
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- 1.Ichak Adizes earns University of Belgrade honorary PhD degree (article in Serbian language).
- 2.Dr. Ichak Kalderon Adizes interview with Antonio Alizzi. YouTube.
- 3.Ichak Adizes. Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara.
- 4.Donelan, Charles (February 16, 2012) "Pianist Ratimir Martinović at SBCC", Santa Barbara Independent. Retrieved July 1, 2019.
- 5.Leadership success through synergy: Maximizing performance in public sector management. Vanguard. 2017-04-05.
- 6.Adizes' PAEI management roles. HotPMO.
- 7.Romero, Luis E. The Ultimate Guide To Team Synergy. Forbes.
- 8.ESpeakers Marketplace. MarketPlace eSpeakers.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 5
- Corporate LifeCycles: How and Why Corporations Grow and Die and What to Do About It (Prentice Hall Direct, 1989)
- Leading the Leaders (2004)
- The Accordion Player: My Journey from Fear to Love (2023)
- What Matters in Life: Lessons I Learned from Opening My Heart (2023)
- Managing Corporate Lifecycles: Predicting Future Problems Today (2023)
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