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The Accordion Player
My Journey from Fear to Love

Seeing every challenge as an opportunity, Dr. Ichak Adizes reveals how he went from being a child imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp to one of the greatest business management thinkers of our time. Dr. Adizes’ personal story details a string of external events that propelled him through adversity after adversity, and led him to become the insightful, compassionate person he is. It is the story of a journey into his own heart, which—like the accordion he so passionately played to feed himself and gain an education—expanded and opened, to allow him to accept the universal truths that connect us all in our humanity. The Accordion Player is an account of a remarkable life—an unvarnished view of a man who was marginalized, but eventually overcame the trauma of his youth to find happiness, success, and love. His inspiring journey reminds us that hope is not lost.

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Bibliography

  1. The Power of Collaborative Leadership. Due 2023.
  2. Systemic Coaching. Due 2023.
  3. The Accordion Player: Dr. Adizes’ Autobiography. Due, 2023.
  4. What Matters in Life. Due 2023.
  5. Insights On Socio-Political Issues: Volume III. Santa Barbara, CA: Adizes Institute Publications, 2019.
  6. Insights on Personal Growth: Vol III. Santa Barbara, CA: Adizes Institute Publications. 2019.
  7. Insights on Management: Vol III. Santa Barbara, CA: Adizes Institute Publications, 2018. 
  8. The Power of Opposites, with Yechezkel and Ruth Madanes. Santa Barbara CA: Adizes Institute Publications, 2015.
  9. Mastering Change, Santa Barbara CA: Adizes Institute Publications, 1992. Revised edition, Adizes Institute Publications, 2015.
  10. Insights on Management: Vol II. Santa Barbara, CA: Adizes Institute Publications, 2014.
  11. Insights on Personal Growth: Vol II. Santa Barbara, CA: Adizes Institute Publications, 2014.
  12. Insights on Policy Issues: Vol II. Santa Barbara, CA: Adizes Institute Publications, 2014.
  13. Food for Thought: On What Counts in Life. Santa Barbara, CA: Adizes Institute Publications, 2012.
  14. Food for Thought: On Change and Leadership. Santa Barbara, CA: Adizes Institute Publications, 2012.
  15. Food for Thought: On Management. Santa Barbara, CA: Adizes Institute Publications, 2012.
  16. Insights on Management: Vol I. Santa Barbara, CA: Adizes Institute Publications, 2011.
  17. Insights on Personal Growth: Vol I. Santa Barbara, CA: Adizes Institute Publications, 2011.
  18. Insights on Policy: Vol I. Santa Barbara, CA: Adizes Institute Publications, 2011.
  19. How to Manage in Times of Crisis (And How to Avoid a Crisis in the First Place). Santa Barbara, CA: Adizes Institute Publications, 2009.
  20. Leading the Leaders: How to Enrich Your Style of Management and Handle People Whose Style Is Different from Yours. Santa Barbara, CA: Adizes Institute Publications, 2004.
  21. Management/ Mismanagement Styles: How to Identify a Style and What to Do About It. Santa Barbara, CA: Adizes Institute Publications, 2004.
  22. Corporate Lifecycles: Why Organizations Grow Age and Die. Initial Publications by Prentice Hall 1990. Reprint, Santa Barbara CA: Adizes Institute Publications. New Revised edition: Managing Corporate Lifecycles Complete Volume or Volume 1 and Volume 2, Santa Barbara CA: Adizes Institute Publications 2004. 
  23. The Ideal Executive: Why You Cannot Be One and What to Do About It. Santa Barbara, CA: Adizes Institute Publications, 2004.
  24. Conversations with CEOs. Santa Barbara, CA: Adizes Institute Publications, 2004. 
  25. The Pursuit of Prime. Santa Monica, CA: Knowledge Exchange, 1996. Reprinted, Santa Barbara, CA: Adizes Institute Publications.
  26. How to Solve the Mismanagement Crisis. Homewood, IL: Dow Jones/ Irwin, 1985. Reprinted, Santa Barbara CA: Adizes Institute Publications.
  27. Self-Management: New Dimensions to Democracy. with E. Mann Borgese, eds., Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1975. Reprinted Santa Barbara CA: Adizes Institute Publications. 
  28. Industrial Democracy: Yugoslav Style. New York Free Press, 1971. Reprinted, Santa Barbara, CA: Adizes Institute Publications.

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