Ichak Kalderon Adizes's Blog: Insights Blog, page 9
May 24, 2019
What Keeps Us Young
In many of my lectures and writings, I present the observation that people who are in love look younger, while those who hate, look older and worn out. It was an observation made with no explanation for why it was happening. Today, I was watching a TED talk by Elizabeth Blackburn, a biologist who shared…
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May 17, 2019
Criticizing Your Spouse
[youtube_sc url="https://youtu.be/EGY3xhEMhqI" title="Criticizing%20Your%20Spouse"] Dr. Ichak Adizes discusses why criticism can plague a marriage (or a relationship), what this can lead to, and what to do about it.
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May 10, 2019
Is There a Major Disaster Brewing?
I believe so. Thousands, if not millions, will die. Here is the potential scary scenario. Several political academics (1) have claimed that the Jewish people in Israel are experiencing the Masada syndrome. Masada is a fortress overlooking the Dead Sea. Built by Herod on the top of a steep mountain, it is very inaccessible. During…
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May 3, 2019
Russia US Relations
The relationship between Russia and the US is one of animosity. There is even talk that Russia might attack the US. Is the animosity mutual? I suggest not. I just returned from a three-week tour of Russia (which I spent lecturing and consulting), and I did not feel any hostility. Russians are thirsty for Western…
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April 26, 2019
The Curse of Being Jewish
On March 22, 1943, the Jewish community of Macedonia was marched to the Monopol concentration camp and loaded on trains to Treblinka, where they were stacked on top of each other like logs, covered in gasoline, and lit on fire. They burned for days until they all died. Among them were my grandfather and grandmother,…
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April 19, 2019
The Role of Love in Success
Let us start from the beginning. Can we all agree that there is change? Can we all agree that change means something new is happening? Can we all agree that in response to the new situation, we need to decide what to do? And that responding includes the decision not to decide, that it includes…
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April 12, 2019
I Cry for You, Serbia
Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, is the city where my grandfather once had a home and store. It is the city I came back to as an eight-year-old child after the Second World War and where I went through the first, second, and third grade of elementary school. I fell in love with playing the…
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April 5, 2019
On Tolerance, Pain and Patience
In the Hebrew language, each word has a root central to its meaning. If two different words have the same root, they’re related. In Hebrew, the words, “patience,” “tolerance,” and “pain” share the same root, SVL: (SaVlanut, SoVLaNut, SeVeL). And it makes sense. It is painful to tolerate somebody who thinks differently than you. And,…
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March 29, 2019
The Cause of Bureaucracy
What is bureaucracy? It is an organization with plenty of rules and procedures, but with meagre or undesirable deliverables; The organization is not effective; it does not satisfy its clients’ needs in a timely manner. Here is a joke which illustrates how a bureaucracy behaves. A man was going to Paris. His friend told him…
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March 21, 2019
Marital Warfare
Spouses typically differ in character and personality. If they were not different, they would not have been attracted to each other and would not have gotten married… But these differences create conflicts, and those conflicts can be painful. Sometimes they even resemble a war. To keep the war from escalating, a periodic armistice is needed.…
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