Management & Mismanagement Styles (How to Identify a Style and What to Do About It)

By Ichak Adizes

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Language: English Not Rated (NR)

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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 togetherthey provide a methodology on how to lead organizations as a team.

The capabilities that textbooks and trade journals demand from a leaderdo not and cannot exist in any single individual because the task ofleading an organization is far too complicated for any one individualto perform well. These books and journals describe what a leader shouldbe because that is what the organization needs. They ignore, however,that being human, people have strengths and weaknesses. No one isperfect. Management / Mismanagement Styles analyzes why the ideal executive or leader cannot exist and thus doesnot exist. Attempts to train and develop the ideal leader, bydefinition, cannot produce expected results.

This book helps managers identify the style of real people, notimaginary templates, and provides tools to build a team of people withcomplementary strengths and weaknesses, based on their differentmanagement styles.

This book provides a methodology to classify styles identify theirstrengths and weaknesses, and predict how each style will makedecisions, staff, motivate, and communicate; in a word, manage.

Management / Mismanagement Styles is based on Dr. Adizes 30 years ofconsulting experience worldwide, from start-ups to Fortune 100companies. Dr. Adizes has also used the methodology described in thisbook in working with prime ministers, presidents and cabinets ofgovernments around the world. His previous books have been translatedinto 26 languages and are best sellers in several countries.

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"Ichak Adizes has done it again! Another must book for every manager and executive who is willing and eager to learn more about themselves, their business, and their style. He explains logically and convincingly why "the ideal manager" cannot exist and how to make up for the less than ideal situation. The Producing, Administrating, Enterprising and Integrating (PAEI) concept is a comprehensive approach to management which is difficult to argue."

--Gideon Toeplitz, Executive VP and Managing Director of the Pittsburgh Symphony

"Dr. Adizes came to SanDisk when we were contemplating major transformations, necessitated by rapid growth. Ichak initially came in for a three day offsite meeting with my staff. He kept us working for seven days...Ichak's technique is unique, clear, personal, and decisive. He is able to deliver results by stripping down even the most complicated organizations and people into their basic elements, and rebuilding them into a solid, streamlined organization that is well suited for adaptability in situations of rapid growth. If you are managing a fast growth business that is beginning to break at the seams, this book will probably be of great help."

--D. Eli Harari, founder, President and CEO of SanDisk