Stockholm School of Economics

How to Solve the Mismanagement Crisis

Diagnosis and Treatment of Management Problems
Ichak Adizes

How to Solve the Mismanagement Crisis presents a fresh new approach on how to manage for profits and growth through understanding that no one person is or can be the "perfect textbook manager." The theme is that to ignore this fact is to put your company's productivity and profits in jeopardy.

The author presents a new approach on how to manage by recognizing that management is too complicated a process for any one individual to perform all the roles required. Each role requires a distinct style — a pattern of behavior which predictably occurs in response to specific situations. The roles encompassed by the managerial process are in conflict at any given time. Although a person can perform all of those roles over time, no one person can perform them all simultaneously. The material presented in this book enables you to diagnose mismanagement and offers design strategies for treating it.

This book has been translated into Danish, Swedish, Spanish, Hebrew, French, Dutch, Portuguese, Norwegian, Japanese, German, Finnish and Yugostav.

About author

Ichak Adizes is an Israeli born in Yugoslavia. He teaches at the Graduate School of Management at the University of California in Los Angeles and at Tel Aviv University, Israel. He is also the Founder and Professional Director of the Adizes Institute in Santa Monica. He is a graduate of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and received his M.B.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University, New York.

Dr. Adizes has taught top management programs worldwide. His Adizes Method has been applied in companies that range from $2 million to $2 billion in sales worldwide. In addition to his work at UCLA, Dr. Adizes has taught at Tel Aviv and Stanford University, Columbia University Executive Programs, and the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. His other works include Managing Change in Personal Life, Family Life, Business and Society and Corporate Lifecycles.