Adizes. Two books on change management that you must read

This post will be (I hope) interesting:
1) to employees who are interested in what direction their company is developing
2) to managers of different levels and owners of companies
If you work from 9-00 to 17-30, look forward to the weekend and you do not care , what to do, if only you paid money, then you do not need this post, do not waste your time on it.

Why did these books hook me and how did it happen

A month ago, Adizes appeared in my life. On that day, our developers returned from the Software People 2010 conference. One of the reports made by Askhat Urazbayev mentioned the Adizes methodology and gave the firm a life cycle from emergence to death. My friend SeregaP , the development manager of our company, immediately bought the book “Corporation Life Cycle Management” .

Then I acted like a fox in a fairy tale (put me on a bench, a tail under a bench ...) - as a result, the book turned out to be with me. And then I myself went to the store and bought another, red (smile). It was called Management Styles - Effective and Ineffective .

In these books, the following ideas are worked out sequentially and methodically.

• Organization for its life goes through several stages (see. Figure).
  
• At each stage, she is faced with normal and abnormal problems, which Adizes very accurately identifies. By the way, during my life I worked in several companies, occupying different positions, and also had the opportunity to observe other companies. In my opinion, Adizes is damned right in his classifications.
• During the transition between stages, the organization changes and can fall into one of the traps, Adizes describes them fairly accurately.
• At each stage, managers are required with different combinations of productive (P), administrative (A), entrepreneurial (E), and integrating (I) principles. In sum, the result is unfortunately unattainable for one person PAEI combination. The absence or presence of these principles in combination moves the organization forward, throws it back or traps it.
• Each stage is characterized by a different combination of powers and responsibilities with which the organization gives performers. Their combination is denoted by CAPI and is also methodically examined by Adizes.

All the stages of the life curve of a company from birth to death, all the beginnings, powers and responsibilities of Adizes are described in great detail and thoughtfully. And interestingly, everything he talks about does not contradict our Russian realities. Most likely this is because Adizes describes universal things that go beyond countries and cultures.
To summarize - the books are very useful, the average combination of ideas per page of the text is an order of magnitude higher than usual. At the same time, books are written in a clear and accessible language, and pictures and funny inserts make reading not only useful, but also enjoyable.

Why books are useful to me

First, the books gave the key to recognizing your style and highlighting the point of the life curve in which our company is located. This knowledge makes it possible to understand what needs to be changed in oneself in order to become more effective. This knowledge also makes it possible to isolate the insufficiently strong components of PAEI and begin the search for people to strengthen them.

Secondly, I received another confirmation that the organizations are fundamentally different and that it’s not about the people who work there, but more and more deeply. And therefore, in communicating with other organizations, you can try to adapt to their style. At the same time, you can understand in advance what to expect and what to adapt to just by identifying the place of organization on its life curve.

Thirdly, there is something that I knew for a long time, but I was embarrassed to admit it to myself. And now I have received confirmation. So. Problems are normal (if they are normal problems). And do not suffer from the fact that they appear. After all, if there are problems, then the company is alive.
There are other usefulnesses, but this is already personal (smile).