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Ichak Kalderon Adizes is an Yugoslavian American business consultant and former tenured professor.
From 1967 to 1982 Adizes was a tenured professor at UCLA, then at Stanford, Tel Aviv University, Hebrew University and Columbia University's executive programs.[citation needed]
Adizes founded the Adizes Institute, which is based in Santa Barbara, California. He is well known in the corporate world for developing the PAEI management model in early 1970s, that categorizes managers into four key roles Producer, Administrator, Entrepreneur and Integrator.
Adizes was named as one of the top communicators in the world alongside Pope Francis, Dalai Lama, Angela Merkel as per the 2017 Holmes Report.
Adizes has authored several books on corporate management:
- Corporate Lifecycles: How and why Corporations Grow and Die and what to Do about it
- The Pursuit of Prime
- Mastering Change – Introduction to Organizational Therapy
- The Ideal Executive
- Managing Corporate Lifecycles: How organizations Grow, Age and Die
- Management/Mismanagement Styles
- How to solve the Mismanagement Crisis
- The Ideal Executive
- Leading the Leaders
- How to Manage in times of Crisis
- From Stuckness to Growth
- The Power of Opposites
- Conversations with CEOs

