Ichak Kalderon Adizes's Blog: Insights Blog, page 19

Playing Solitaire

This blog post was featured in the Huffington Post on September 06, 2017. Have you ever played solitaire? If you have not, do so to learn an important lesson about management and life in general. This exercise is especially valuable if you are a Type E personality. In this game, you start with a deck of cards…

How to Lose Weight and Keep It Off

This blog post was featured in the Huffington Post on August 30, 2017. When people ask me what is my biggest achievement, they expect me to speak about my eighteen honorary doctorates or about my twenty books in twenty-six languages or anything else from my professional career. Or maybe about my family life that I have the…

Not Goodbye, Baku

This blog post was featured in the Huffington Post on August 23, 2017. Apparently, one is never too old to fall in love again, and I fell in love with Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. Actually, with the country of Azerbaijan. You can walk the city of Baku for hours and not be bored. Every hundred steps…

On Happiness or Lack of It

This blog post was featured in the Huffington Post on August 16, 2017. Pursuit of happiness is a right given to us by the American constitution. Is there any sane human being who does not yearn to be happy and continuously so? Seeking and living a life of pleasure might make you happy in the short run…

Women are Different

This blog post was featured in the Huffington Post on August 09, 2017. I read somewhere; do not try to count the stars. It cannot be done. And do not try to understand women. You will not succeed. Well, I think I got an insight which I hope will help me in my marriage and could be…

Zionism: Quo Vadis

This blog post was featured in the Huffington Post on August 03, 2017. I feel that Zionism as initially conceived has run its course. It is in need for review to reconsider its mission and political platform. Let me explain. Zionism was created as a reaction to anti-Semitism. Theodor Herzl, the founding father of this movement, being…

The Mother in Law

This blog post was featured in the Huffington Post on July 26, 2017. Azerbaijan, a traditional Muslim society, culturally very tolerant, has a divorce rate of more than fifty percent. Most of the divorces happen within two to three years after the wedding. Is there an explanation? Whenever I see high rate of divorce or, for that…

Why Jesus, Buddha, or Moses?

This blog post was featured in the Huffington Post on July 19, 2017. There is a social game that asks the players to decide whom they would most like to have dinner with. They can choose any figure, dead or alive, from any time in history—whoever it is that they find most fascinating. At Christmas…

What is Sales?

This blog post was featured in the Huffington Post on July 12, 2017 In my consulting work, I have come across a phenomena: Companies believe they have a strong sales department when, in reality, they have none. From an accounting point of view, a sale is when an obligation is created for a buyer to give us…

The Process of Aging

This blog post was featured in the Huffington Post on July 05, 2017 I am following up with a client to see how the succession plan we have devised is working. He says that my advice to honor his father worked extremely well. The company went public in an IPO. The father rang the bell and was…