This is the second in a series of three books. The first is titled The Ideal Executive: Why You Cannot Be One and What to Do About It. The third is Leading the Leaders: How to Enrich Your Style of Management and Handle People Whose Style is Different From Yours. Each book in this series can be read independently, but all together they provide a methodology on how to lead organizations as a team. The capabilities that textbooks and trade journals demand from a leader do not and cannot exist in any single individual because the task of leading an organization is far too complicated for any one individual to perform well. These books and journals describe what a leader should be because that is what the organization needs. They ignore, however, that being human, people have strengths and weaknesses. No one is perfect. Management / Mismanagement Styles analyzes why the ideal executive or leader cannot exist and thus does not exist. Attempts to train and develop the ideal leader, by definition, cannot produce expected results. This book helps managers identify the style of real people, not imaginary templates, and provides tools to build a team of people with complementary strengths and weaknesses, based on their different management styles. This book provides a methodology to classify styles identify their strengths and weaknesses, and predict how each style will make decisions, staff, motivate, and communicate; in a word, manage. Management / Mismanagement Styles is based on Dr. Adizes 30 years of consulting experience worldwide, from start-ups to Fortune 100 companies. Dr. Adizes has also used the methodology described in this book in working with prime ministers, presidents and cabinets of governments around the world. His previous books have been translated into 26 languages and are best sellers in several countries.

Management/Mismanagement Styles

Business & Money

Adizes Ph.D., Ichak Kalderon

Management & Leadership

Adizes Institute

Dr. Adizes' premise, developed in this book, is that the ideal leader, manager, or executive-ideal in the sense that he can fulfill by himself all the roles necessary for the long-and short-term effectiveness and efficiency of an organization-does not and cannot exist. And that is the problem with contemporary management literature: it presents what the executive should do, (because that is what the organization needs) even though no one can do it. All the books and textbooks that try to teach us to be perfect managers, leaders, or executives are based on the erroneous assumption that such a goal is possible. This book explains why it is not. We are all barking up the wrong tree, spending millions of dollars to train and develop executives based on faulty logic. This book is the first in a series of three. In this volume, Dr. Adizes presents a paradigm shift in management thinking: If no one can be the ideal executive that organizations need, what should be done to avoid mismanagement? How do we compose a complementary team? How do we structure the company correctly? How do we harness conflict that necessarily will emerge within a team composed of diverse styles? This book is a must for all managers and leaders of industry or not-for-profit organizations. It is based on 30 years of successful application of principles presented in this book in 48 countries, in companies from start-ups to the largest on the earth.

The Ideal Executive

Leading the Leaders was written to help individuals discover their basic management style while encouraging the development of Mutual Trust and Respect between co-workers, peers, and others - whose management styles are different. That is the purpose of the Leadership Series: How to manage your style so you can work better with others, and how to coach others so they can work better with you.

Leading The Leaders

Managing Corporate Lifecycles

Ichak Adizes

Humor & Entertainment

The Pursuit of Prime

Adizes, Ph.D. Ichak

Building a company requires a complementary team. It needs collaborative leadership a team of leaders who differ in their styles yet complement one another. But here is the problem: A complementary team since it is by definition composed of different styles generates conflict. So although conflict is good although it is necessary and indispensable it can be destructive and dysfunctional. What is needed to avoid this potential dysfunctional and destructive conflict is collaborative leadership based on Mutual Trust and Respect. This book provides a paradigm shift in how to successfully manage for exceptional sustainable results.

Mastering Change - Introduction to Organizational Therapy

Adizes PH.D., Dr Ichak

Industrial Democracy: Yugoslav Style - Spanish edition

Economics

Corporate Lifecycles

Biography & History

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