Pursue excellence

Author: Ichak Adizes
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: The Pursuit of Excellence proposes the Adizes Method for achieving and maintaining organizational health. Dr. Adizes has taught this method in master's and doctoral education programs at most universities and the Adizes Institute globally. Summarizing his 30 years of experience applying the principles in the book, Dr. Adizes provides common-sense judgment methods and actionable advice on how to identify danger signals and abnormal problems at each stage of a company's life cycle. What's important is how to transform normal problems into opportunities. Companies, like humans, follow specific growth stages—infancy, toddlerhood, adolescence, and maturity. Both humans and companies reach their peak state in their final stage of development. In The Pursuit of Excellence, Ichak Adizes guides and helps businesses reach the pinnacle of their lives step by step. This book aims to demonstrate how for-profit and nonprofit organizations can reach the best state of their lives in two directions—either maturing from youth or rejuvenating from old age—and maintain that position. The content of this book not only includes the wisdom of immortality but also reveals the secrets of pursuing and maintaining eternal vitality.