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Ichak Adizes PhD.


 Early Life

Ichak Adizes was born in Skopje, Macedonia in 1939. Ichak and his father, Solomon Adizes, were sent by the Italians and Bulgarians to a concentration camp. Disguised as Muslims, they managed to escape to Albania, where they found sanctuary with Muslim villagers. The story of their escape from Nazi concentration camps was the subject of a BBC documentary film, titled I Want to Remember, He Wants to Forget.

They moved to Israel, after its founding, where Ichak was raised. Then, Ichak moved to the United States where he earned his M.B.A. and PhD. at Columbia University in New York with an emphasis on Management and Leadership.

Consulting and Management Education Career

He has held appointments as Visiting Professor at Hebrew University (Israel) and Tel Aviv University, Stanford University and Columbia University. He also served as Adjunct Associate Professor at the UCLA John Anderson Graduate School of Management, where among other achievements he established the Management of the Arts MBA program, until he left to pursue his career in consulting. He has consulted to (insert companies here). Since then, he founded the Adizes Institute which has expanded to X number of offices in y number of countries across the globe.

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Adizes Methodology

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I Want to Remember, He Wants to Forget

I Want to Remember, He Wants to Forget (1997, 60 minutes, Hebrew with English subtitles) recounts the dramatic and moving story of Solomon Adizes and his son, Isaac, of Skopje, Macedonia who were sent by the Italians and Bulgarians to a concentration camp in WWII. Disguised as Muslims, they managed to escape to Albania, where they found sanctuary with Muslim villagers. Solomon pretended to be a doctor and earned a reputation throughout the entire region. After the war, they returned to Yugoslavia and from there immigrated to Israel. Fifty years later father and son return to the concentration camp in the heart of Skopje, and from there back to Albania to visit the family that saved them from the Nazis.

Directed and produced by Eitan Oren, I Want to Remember, He Wants to Forget received first prize at the The Berkeley Jewish Film Festival. It was produced by with the support of Channel One of the Israel Broadcasting Authority and The Adizes Institute, Los Angeles.

Recognitions and Accomplishments

For his accomplishments in the field of Management theory and education, Dr. Adizes has been awarded two honorary citizenships (macedonia and ??) 10 honorary doctorates from Universities around the world. He is the author of seven books that have been translated into 22 languages. His Corporate Lifecycles: How Organizations Grow and Die and What to Do About It (1988) is an well-regarded classic in management theory that was selected as one of the 10 Best Business Books by The Library Journal. A revised edition was published under the title Managing Corporate Lifecycles in 1999. Dr. Adizes’ other books include the Pursuit of Prime (1996), Mastering Change: The Power of Mutual Trust and Respect in Personal Life, Family, Business and Society (1992), How to Solve the Mismanagement Crisis (1979), and Self-Management (1975). Adizes is also a noted lecturer who speaks English, Spanish, Hebrew and Serbian and has appeared in over 40 countries. His work has been featured in Inc. Magazine, Fortune, the New York Times, London Financial Times, Investor Relations Daily, Nation’s Business and World Digest.