How tot manage in Time of Crisis
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Ицхак Адизес. How tot manage in Time of Crisis
Acknowledgments
Recognition
The nature of change and its repercussions
Definition of a “crisis”
The importance of timely reaction
Why change causes problems
Disintegration is universal and inevitable
“Lies, damned lies, and statistics”
The remedy
What not to do
“What does not kill you makes you stronger”
Steps to take in a crisis
Preserve your strengths
Synchronizing the four sub-systems
Reaffirm your mission
Restructure responsibilities
Authorance: Authority, power, and influence
How do you steer a powerboat?
The importance of structure
The hierarchy of information flow
Reinforcements, intrinsic and extrinsic
Extrinsic reinforcements
Intrinsic reinforcements
The value of empowerment
What could go wrong?
We should have seen it coming
“Fish-scale society”
Changing values, changing behavior
Summing up
About the Adizes Institute
Selected complementary works by Dr. Adizes
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I want to thank my associates Nebojsa Caric (Adizes South East Europe), Sunil Dovedy (Adizes USA), and Carlos Valdesuso (Adizes Brazil) for their most helpful comments on an early draft. My thanks go to Nan Goldberg for editing my speech and Emily Garvin for copy editing the final draft.
RIGHT NOW, IN 2009, the world is in a deep financial crisis. It affects everyone, particularly companies that are undergoing a transformation into an increasingly competitive economy and experiencing rapid and continual economic, political, and technological changes: companies that must have access to credit in order to continue developing.
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Change is nothing new. Change has been here forever, for billions of years. What is new is that the rate of change is accelerating, faster and faster and faster… Our grandparents probably made one strategic decision in their lifetimes (to move to a new city, change jobs, etc.), and our parents made strategic decisions every fifteen or twenty years. We might make strategic decisions every ten years, and most probably, our children are going to make strategic decisions every couple of years, maybe even every year.
THE INCREASING RATE of change has repercussions. When change occurs, problems arise: what to do in the new situation or with the new events facing us. As change accelerates, problems are attacking us faster. Everybody has more problems than they can handle. People are falling behind faster and getting more and more stressed.
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