Ichak Kalderon Adizes's Blog: Insights Blog, page 10
March 15, 2019
How to Build Trust
The health of an organization depends on the existence or deficiency of mutual trust and respect. In this blog, we are going to focus on the word trust. What builds trust in relationships? What undermines it? Let’s look at the following scenario. Let us say that I am working with somebody—let’s call him Joe.I don’t…
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March 8, 2019
Let the Consumer Beware
This is the claim supporters of liberal free market repeat: businesses should seek to maximize profits, and if the product or service they provide has some undesired characteristics... Well, that is a problem for the market to deal with. The assumption is that consumers are intelligent and knowledgeable, that they can make good decisions, that…
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March 1, 2019
Light a Candle
“It’s better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.” I do not know who said it, but it is a very powerful piece of advice. Why? Because we cannot control the darkness, can we? But we can light a candle. It is not unusual for us to attribute a problem to another person. We…
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February 22, 2019
When Should You Stop Getting Input and Make a Decision?
There are three managerial styles that go around and around and can’t close the discussion and bite the bullet, i.e., TAKE a decision. Type (A), type (I) and type (E).* Type (A), the bureaucratic style, works from a starting point of fear, fear of making a mistake. Fear of taking risk. Wanting to be perfectly…
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February 15, 2019
Drug Cartels: A Relief for Mexico
AMLO, the new President of Mexico, announced a plan that will confront the drug cartels which, in their struggle for territory, commit wholesale assassinations causing a feeling of insecurity in the country. I suggest that the remedy he is planning can have side effects which are worse than the disease he is trying to treat.…
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February 8, 2019
Is There A Link Between Beating Children and Waging War?
There are countries where it is culturally acceptable to beat and spank your children hard, hard enough to make them hurt and realize you mean to punish them. It just occurred to me that beating innocent, helpless children has broader repercussions than the pain of that little kid who has no way of protecting himself…
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January 25, 2019
The Dangers of the (E)ntrepreneurial Style of Leadership
The steps of decision-making are the following: Defreeze Accumulate Deliberate Incubate Illuminate Accommodate Finalize Reinforce Individuals with a strong (E)ntrepreneurial style—very creative people with a vision and endless ideas—move through the decision-making process very quickly. (E)-types hate getting into the details, although the devil is in the details. They rush from slight accumulation into illumination,…
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The Molotov Cocktail of Communication
A Molotov 1 cocktail is a bottle filled with two liquids, stoppered, and topped with a lit wick. When thrown, the bottle explodes and starts a fire. The combination of these three ingredients—the two liquids and the spark—is explosive. Similarly, when a person trying to communicate activates two organs in their body at the same…
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The Dangers of the (E)ntrepreneurial Style of Leadership
The steps of decision-making are the following: Defreeze Accumulate Deliberate Incubate Illuminate Accommodate Finalize Reinforce Individuals with a strong (E)entrepreneurial style—very creative people with a vision and endless ideas—move through the decision-making process very quickly. (E)-types hate getting into the details, although the devil is in the details. They rush from slight accumulation into illumination,…
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January 18, 2019
Losing Trust in the Dollar?
It used to be that paper money was backed by gold. It was the gold that was in limited quantity that gave value to the paper. Then the backing of the currency by gold was taken away, and now the transactions are done only with paper money backed by nothing but trust. What is the paper worth? The trust people place in it; I trust that if I sell you…
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