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Spiral Dynamics, New Adizes Book: Insights!, Presenter Profiles |
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Spring Term Open for Admission:
The Adizes Graduate School (AGS) is open for applications through April 15th, 2010. Students interested in the online Ph.D. or Master of Arts programs, or the dual-track Ma/PhD program, should visit our website and contact Stephanie Galindo, M.Ed., Director of Admissions, immediately at Degree@Adizes.com for detailed information.
Applying to AGS is FREE. A Bachelor Degree is required for the dual-track or M.A. programs. A Master Degree is required to enter the Ph.D. program directly. | |
About Adizes Methodology
Every organization grows and develops according to a natural lifecycle, facing predictable problems at each stage along the way. Insights into these patterns can be critical to your success. Some of these patterns include:
CORPORATE LIFECYCLES:
What are the pathologies to avoid as you journey from an entrepreneurial entity to Prime? What does a CEO have to do to revitalize an aging company?
PAEI stands for Producer, Administrator, Entrepreneur, and Integrator: the four management styles and roles that apply in the workplace. What qualities should the leadership team have at each stage of the lifecycle? What is the difference between roles and styles and how does this affect the decision making?
CAPI (Coalesced Power, Authority and Influence) is needed to create functional problem-solving teams.
How does one create CAPI for implementing an organizational initiative?
Attend an Adizes seminar to find out the answers to these questions! Participants in the Breakthrough to Prime! seminars will also learn:
Mastering Change
1. The nature of problems, how they are created how they can be solved
2. The nature of conflict
3. Useful tools for dissecting sources of conflict in order to make conflict constructive
Structure and Lifecycles
1. How to accelerate the rate that change is implemented
2. How organizations grow and die and what to do about it
3. How to structure an organization correctly
Click for a demonstration of the Lifecycle model.
Click herefor a free online Lifecycle Assessment!
To find out more about the BTP seminars, click here or contact Shoham at Adizes.com. |
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The Adizes Graduate School is now accepting applications for the Spring Term, 2010.
New student Applications for all programs are due by April 15, 2010.
For information on all Adizes Graduate School programs, contact Stephanie Galindo, M.Ed., Student Dean, at Degree@Adizes.com.
To apply to the School, visit the Application page of the AGS website.
AGS Founder: Dr. Ichak Adizes
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Spiral Dynamics: Natural Design
Spiral Dynamics explains why medicine cannot prevent the spread of HIV; why global crises, such as terrorism, exist and resist diplomacy; how to integrate and align the efforts of stake-holders with regard to domestic economic and social development issues, and how to facilitate a unifying vision in complex global hot spots.
Spiral Dynamics answers questions like: IF it is time for change, then FROM what TO what? WHY do people respond to different motivators? WHY and HOW do values and ideologies arise and spread? WHAT is the nature of change? HOW should who lead whom to do what for which people living where, and when?
When using Spiral Dynamics, you design natural systems within a coherent framework. What does this mean? In part, it means that you inspire people in ways that matter to them, at this time, in this place. You construct organizations that align the work to be done, the people who will be doing it, the management style that fits those people, and the technologies that support their work style naturally.
Learn more about this powerful framework for managing change in the Level 1-2 Certification Courses to be scheduled this fall in Santa Barbara, California. Dr. Don E. Beck will be teacing the six-day seminar. Watch our newsletter for dates! Visit our website for details. | |
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Dr. Ichak Adizes new book ~ Insights: Policy Issues!
Dr. Ichak Adizes insights for managing complex organizational change initiatives have led to significant breakthroughs for start-ups, aging organizations, non-profits and governments. For the past few years, Dr. Adizes, founder of the Adizes Institute and Graduate School, has been writing about insights received during his travels and meetings with executives, educational leaders, and government representatives around the world in a e-newsletter called Adizes Insights. He has posted many essays on his blog for feedback. Now those insights specific to both domestic and international policy issues - sometimes revised based on blog reader comments - are available in a book! Catch up with Dr. Adizes and explore his blog. About the book, he says,
In particular, these Insights offer a fascinating close-up of how countries all over the world - developed countries as well as countries in transition - dealt first with the phenomenon of globalization, and then recently with a Western financial crisis that went viral within hours, proving a point that I have often tried to make: that, like it or not, countries are going to have to learn to live and work together, or they are not likely to survive at all.
Some of my observations, even those written less than five years ago, might appear outdated, even antiquated. But that, too, is a valuable observation: If my opinion seems quaint only three years after I wrote it, that is even more proof (as if we needed more proof) that change is accelerating beyond the capacity of human beings to deal with it reasonably. I hope these Insights will stir debate.
Get 40% pre-ordered book and enjoy the opportunity to chat with Dr. Adizes personally, too! Click here to visit Dr. Adizes blog! |
2nd Int'l Forum on Agribusiness, Ukrain 2010
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Breakthrough to Prime! Presenter Profile: Shoham Adizes
The Adizes Institute is the parent organization to the Adizes Graduate School (AGS). Shoham Adizes is the Institute's Vice President of Operations and the youngest practicing Adizes Associate.
To prepare for his educational leadership role, Shoham traveled and studied with Dr. Ichak Adizes, his father, attending lectures and consultations with various organizations all over the world in a structured assistantship. The classwork, internship, and examination process provided an in-depth understanding of the Adizes methodology. Shoham is now Certified in Adizes Phases I-III.
Shoham received his B.S. in Business from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1999. In 2003, he formed his own start-up organization, called Energy Reclaim, which provided high consumers of electricity with energy saving devices in conjunction with the California Public Utility Rebate Program. This venture provided invaluable knowledge of the problems and opportunities of managing a business at various stages of the Corporate Lifecycle.
The Breakthrough to Prime! (BTP) seminars are held world wide and also in Santa Barbara, California, which is the headquarters for AGS. The next seminar in Santa Barbara will be April 8-10, 2010. Seminars are open to the public and convey the core concepts of the Adizes methodology (details at left). | |
Dr. Don Beck in Santa Barbara
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Recap: Dr. Don Beck in Santa Barbara
The Adizes Graduate School presents a six-day Spiral Dynamics: Natural Design certification training with Dr. Don E. Beck twice yearly. These seminars always include an active participatory venue with music, film, cartoons, and small group work, providing a highly experiential learning opportunity.
The spring session (March 2010) included attendees from seven countries. Participants work in law, health care, education, psychiatry, economics, medicine, organizational management, real estate, international food and beverage franchising and with youth groups. They were seeking insights to apply in this wide variety of contexts, including NLP, the Royal Navy, a Swiss Embassy, and in community, corporate, cultural and national development projects.
Below are a few photos, just to entice you to join us this Fall! First, Dr. Don Beck presents the basics... providing the academic underpinnings of the original systems theory and examples of multiple initiatives and contexts for application::
 
Below: Don (in bright blue) demonstrates communication strategies in some of the first and second tier social and organizational value systems.
Power driven Order driven People driven Process Oriented
Then in Level 2, we add special guests and workshops:
Below Left: Said Dawlabani explaining the economic collapse memetically.
Below Right: Elza Maalouof discussing major Spiral applications.
 
 Right: Darrell Gooden (an Adizes Graduate School Ph.D. student) meshes SDi and Adizes constructs in his work with the U.S. military.
Below : Small group work and demonstrations: Group 1 is from Spain, Brazil and Switzerland. Group 2, with Don, includes participants from Mexico, Spain and the U.S. On a realy nice day, participants from Rwanda, Kuwait, Britain, and the U.S. worked on selected projects outside.
Watch our newsletter and website for the Fall seminar dates in 2010 or contact Edu@Adizes.com. |
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Spiral Dynamics Presenter Profile: Ben Levi
 Ben Levi has been a practitioner of Spiral Dynamics integral (SDi) since 2000. He specializes in the utilization of various web-based Spiral Dynamics assessments in individual and organizational contexts, including coaching, and customized reporting capabilities based on individual and group assessment results.
Ben's contributes during the Spiral Dynamics trainings by assisting Dr. Beck with technical presentation support, as well as providing his perspective on a wide variety of Spiral Dynamics principles.
Ben also offers consultations on SDi assessment results for training participants, and presents an overview of the assessment capabilities to the group. | |
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NEW! - Adizes Book of Insights: Policy Issues! by Dr. Ichak Kalederon Adizes
All pre-ordered books that refer to the blog article (here) get 40% off the cover price!
Also: Give feedback to Dr. Adizes on his blog!
Adizes says: "In this book - the first of a series of Insights collections - all of the essays deal with governmental policy, both within and among nations. The ideas for the Insight column often evolved out of something I saw or heard or felt as I traveled around the world, consulting to organizations that included government administrations, Parliaments, Cabinets, and sometimes even the president of the country. Then, in light of the response from my readers, I often rethought the essays, re-edited or rewrote them, and also updated the ones that needed it.
So here, in that somewhat changed form, are my thoughts as they evolved at the beginning of the 21st century, as I witnessed changes - as well as their unintended consequences - occurring before my own eyes." |
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For details, visit Dr. Adizes blog!
40% discount for book pre-orders! |
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