Delivering Organizational Transformation for over 50 years: rapid change, without destructive conflict.
Adizes Institute in Romania and Moldova helps business owners and leadership teams solve their chronic problems themselves and grow without every decision going through the founder.
- the year Dr. Ichak Adizes founded the Institute
- 1972
- the year Dr. Ichak Adizes founded the Institute
- countries where the methodology has been applied
- 74+
- countries where the methodology has been applied
- governments have worked with Adizes
- 12
- governments have worked with Adizes
- books, translated into over 30 languages
- 28
- books, translated into over 30 languages
The business has grown. The decisions stayed with you.
You have good people on your team, yet every important decision still lands on the owner. People lack the authority, and the processes, to decide on their own.
The result: the founder becomes a prisoner of their own business, and growth stalls exactly where it should accelerate.
„An organization's biggest problem is its inability to solve its own problems.”
- 01The problems you had three years ago are still there
- 02Long meetings, few decisions that actually get implemented
- 03Departments pulling in different directions
- 04Good people burn out and leave
Solve chronic problems with a systematic approach.
Founded by Dr. Ichak Adizes, the methodology equips organizations with the technology and expertise to achieve Prime: an ideal state that balances flexibility and control amidst evolving conditions.
We don't give you off-the-shelf solutions. We ask the right questions, and your team finds and implements the solutions itself. That is why the change lasts.
Explore the methodologyTransforming persistent problems into opportunities for growth.
Enriching leadership styles and driving robust managerial development.
Sculpting high-performing, synergistic teams.
Equipping organizations with potent tools and concepts.
A clear path, step by step, that starts with the diagnosis.
Adizes transformation follows a precise sequence. Each step builds the energy and trust the next one needs. The order matters as much as the steps.
- IWhere it all starts
Diagnose
Syndag™
The leadership team agrees, face to face, on what the real problems are. We depersonalize them: the system is the problem, not the people.
- II
Building MT+R
Synerteam™
- III
Maintain the Effort
POC™
- IV
Commit to a Direction
Synerscope™
- V
Realign
Strategic Org. Design
- VI
Follow the Money
Accountability Systems (APTAS™)
- VII
Cascade the Effort
Cascading
- VIII
Stretch for Peak Performance
Stretching to Peak Performance
- IX
Chart the Path
Strategic Resource Allocation
- X
Institutionalize Change
Systemic Cybernetic Structure
- XI
Reinforce the New Reality
Reinforcement Systems
The diagnosis: your leadership team finally sees the same problems.
For 2–3 days we work face to face with your entire leadership team. Problems are depersonalized: the system is to blame, not the people working in it.
- Duration
- 2–3 days
- Participants
- The entire leadership team
- Format
- Face to face
- 1Clarity on which problems are normal, which are abnormal, and which could be fatal.
- 2A road map and action plan for the major issues facing the organization.
- 3Insight into the problems you are likely to face next, and how to address them.
- 4New leadership and management concepts your team can use immediately.
- 5Visibly better collaboration and teamwork, driven by a shared sense of purpose.
- 6Energy freed from low-value work and channeled toward the changes that matter.
Start with a free assessment.
Four tests developed by the Adizes Institute and used by organizations around the world.

5–10 minutes
Adizes Corporate Lifecycle Test
Identify your organization's lifecycle stage and which of its problems are normal or abnormal for that stage.
Take the test
Individual assessment
PAEI Leadership Style Assessment (ALIS)
Evaluate your leadership style across four roles: Producer, Administrator, Entrepreneur, Integrator.
Take the test
Personalized score
Founder Dependency Assessment
Discover how much your organization depends on you to operate, make decisions, and grow.
Take the test
5 dimensions assessed
Family Business Continuity Assessment
Discover how prepared your family business is to transition leadership and ownership.
Take the test
The tests run on the official Adizes Institute platform. Your results reach you and the Adizes Romania team.
Organizations that have worked with the Adizes Methodology worldwide
1972 · Adizes InstituteDr. Ichak Adizes
Founder & Chairman of the Board, Adizes Institute
A renowned expert in modern management, he has authored 28 books translated into over 30 languages, and taught at UCLA, Stanford and Columbia.
He has received 21 honorary doctorates from universities in eleven countries. In 2017 the “Influence 100” survey named him one of the world’s leading communicators, and in 2019 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Academy of Management.
ichakadizes.com ↗„We have been applying the Adizes methodology for more than 40 years. It has been instrumental in enabling us to grow our business from around $50 million per year to over $4 billion.”
Stewart Resnick
CEO, The Wonderful Company„Adizes has been an invaluable resource and insightful advisor in my efforts to restore entrepreneurial vitality to mature business organizations throughout the world.”
Steven Miller
Former Chairman, President and CEO, Shell Oil Company„The Institute’s methodology has enhanced internal communications and helped us accept change as normal and as a continuous opportunity for the bank.”
Samuel H. Armacost
Former CEO, Bank of America„Ichak Adizes is one of the few management consultants who has converted a whole array of theory-based concepts into unusually practical guidelines for managers, integrated into a comprehensive system of management.”
William H. Newman
Professor, Columbia University Graduate School of Business
Ready to transform your organization?
The first step is a conversation with the Adizes Romania team. We look at where your organization stands and whether the diagnosis is the right next step.
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