Comments on: organizational thinking, part 2

By: the slow and arduous process of change, and the need for help — whyismarko

the slow and arduous process of change, and the need for help — whyismarko — Tue, 17 May 2011 11:03:25 +0000

[...] became a metaphor for me. i had presented adizes’ model of organizational life-cycles (see this post for a little unpacking of that model). we’d talked about the hard path of rebooting an [...]

By: Mitch

Mitch — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 07:20:46 +0000

Thanks marco for your inspiration. It was great to meet up with you in Northern Ireland recently and i just ‘stumbled’ upon you blog when I googled adizezs lifecycle images.
Going on a staff retreat today and sharing on this model and other notes you shared with us in Northern Ireland.

By: ysmarko

ysmarko — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:33:58 +0000

[...] for me in the past few years. i’ve been particularly intrigued by adizes theory, which i’ve blogged about here before. this change at ys is almost the deepest kind of change. it’s just shy of a “fire [...]

By: ysmarko

ysmarko — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:00:20 +0000

[...] organizational thinking, part 2 horton hears a who and the culture of fear my stake in the ground on male pronouns for [...]

By: Joel Diaz

Joel Diaz — Thu, 29 May 2008 14:52:14 +0000

We went through the Adizes process at the church I was formally serving in ATL. Great stuff, but it doesn’t matter when nothing is implemented. Very frustrating indeed. You summarized the process very well. The book is very corporate minded but offers some good insight.

By: shoham

shoham — Wed, 28 May 2008 16:39:25 +0000

Mark Oestreicher,

Thank you for referencing Adizes and leaving a link to Adizes.com and the book, “Managing Corporate Lifecycles.”

I hope your presentation in guatemala, with the leadership of instituto evangelico america latino went well.

FYI-We have a peer learning product called TopLeaF that has been very popular within churches and other faith based organizations. If you would like more information on it or if I can be of service in any way, please feel free to contact me. Shoham@adizes.com

By: Moe Girkins

Moe Girkins — Tue, 27 May 2008 17:53:29 +0000

Marko
This resonates with my thinking. I plan on stealing this for my next employee meeting! Thanks for your insights.
Moe

By: Todd Tolson

Todd Tolson — Tue, 27 May 2008 15:48:09 +0000

Marko,

Thanks for posting this, man. I absolutely love to read this kind of stuff. But then to real life examples from people I know, makes it all the more exciting. Churches, I think, especially need to pay attention to this, because of their “don’t fix it if it ain’t broke” approach to ministry.