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    • Adizes Organizational Therapy
    • Dr. Ichak Adizes
  • 🅰️Dictionary of Terms
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    • Organizational Lifecycle
    • Formula Of Success
    • Change Map
    • Decision Making Process
    • Adizes Organizational Transformation
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    • 8-step Decision-Making Process
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    • Abnormal Problems
    • Accept (a decision)
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    • Accountability (Managerial)
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    • Adolescence; Adolescent Organization
    • AED (Adizes Executive Dashboard)
    • Affair
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    • Aristocracy; Aristocratic Organization
    • Arrest
    • Arsonist
    • Attribution Analysis Spreadsheet
    • Authorized Power (ap)
    • Backup Behavior
    • Behavioral Curve
    • Benevolent Prince
    • Best in Class
    • Black Book
    • Blue Book
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    • Brackets
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    • Bureaucrat
    • Caminando y Hablando
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    • Column 0
    • Column 1
    • Column 2
    • Column 3
    • Column 4/5
    • Column 6
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  • 📖Library
    • Books by Dr. Ichak Adizes
      • 🧠The Ideal Executive: Why You Cannot Be One and What To Do About It
        • Introduction
          • Organization of the book
        • 1. Barking Up The Wrong Tree
          • A Corporate Fairy Tale (The Outdated Paradigm)
          • What is "Management"?
          • The Fallacy
        • 2. The Functionalist View
          • The Tasks of Management
          • The (PAEI) Code
          • The (P)roducer – (Paei) style
          • The (A)dministrator - (pAei) style
          • The (E)ntrepreneur – (PaEi) style
          • The Integrator – (paeI) style
          • Summing up the Functionalist View
        • 3. What Causes Mismanagement?
          • The Myth Of The Perfect Manager
          • (PAEI) Incompatibilities
          • The impossible dream
        • 4. Mismanagement Styles
          • Confronting the Inevitable
          • The Lone Ranger (P---)
          • The Bureaucrat (-A--)
          • The Arsonist (--E-)
          • The SuperFollower (---I)
          • The Common Denominator
        • 5. Working Together
          • A complementary team
          • The Bad News
        • 6. Can We Talk?
          • A Window on Managerial Styles
          • The Inevitability of Miscommunication
          • Translator Needed
        • 7. Constructive Conflict
          • Good Conflict, Bad Conflict
          • Honoring Diversity
          • Back to the Paradigm
        • 8. Structuring Responsibilities Right
          • Organizational Ecology
          • Why Structure Matters
          • Structuring for Accountability
          • Back to the Functionalist View
          • A template for Good Structure
        • 9. Matching Style to Task
          • Diagnosing a Type
          • Coding Jobs: A Basic Template
          • The Complementary Team Jigsaw Puzzle
        • 10. The Right Process: the Dialogue
          • The Managerial Tower of Babel
          • Dealing with a (P) – A (P)roducer or Lone Ranger
          • Dealing With an (A) – An (A)dministrator or Bureaucrat
          • Dealing With an (E) – An (E)ntrepreneur or Arsonist
          • Dealing With an (I) - an (I)ntegrator or Superfollower
          • Keeping Your Styles Straight: A Cautionary Tale
        • 11. Converting Management by Committee into Teamwork
          • The Communication Blues
          • Questions, Doubts, and Disagreements
        • 12. The Right People and Shared Vision and Values
          • The Role of Leadership
          • Sharing Vision and Values
          • The Visioning Process
        • 13. Nurturing the Wrong Tree?
          • The Wrong Tree
          • Traditional management Squashes Potential
          • The Management Training Gap
        • 14. The Mission of Management and Leadership Education
          • Decision-Making Programmability
          • The Effectiveness of Training
          • Delegation and Decentralization
          • What Organizations Can Do Themselves
          • The Dark Side of Formal Education
      • 📈Mastering Change: Introduction to Organizational Therapy
        • Acknowledgments
        • Introduction to the new edition
        • Management, Executives, Leadership…
        • Conversation 1: Change and Its Repercussions
        • Conversation 2: On Parenting, Management, or Leadership
        • Conversation 3: Predicting the Quality of Decisions
        • Conversation 4: Efficiency and Effectiveness
        • Conversation 5: The Incompatibility of Roles
        • Conversation 6: Management, Leadership, and Mismanagement Styles
        • Conversation 7: What to Do About Change
        • Conversation 8: Responsibility, Authority, Power, and Influence
        • Conversation 9: Predicting the Efficiency of Implementing Decisions
        • Conversation 10: What Makes the Wheels Turn
        • Conversation 11: How to Communicate with People
        • Conversation 12: Perceiving Reality
        • Conversation 13: Quality of People
        • Conversation 14: How to Convert Committee Work into Teamwork
        • Conversation 15: The Adizes Program for Organizational Transformation
      • 🔄Managing Corporate Lifecycles
        • Introduction
        • Chapter 1. Change and Its Repercussions
        • Chapter 2. Courtship
        • Chapter 3. Infancy
        • Chapter 4. The Wild Years: Go-Go
        • Chapter 5. The Second Birth and the Coming of Age: Adolescence
        • Chapter 6: PRIME
        • Chapter 7: The Signs of Aging n
        • Chapter 8: The Aging Organizations: Aristocracy
        • Chapter 9: The Final Decay: Salem City, Bureaucracy, And Death
        • Chapter 10: Tools For Analysis
        • Chapter 11: Predicting The Lifecycle: A Metaphorical Dance
        • Chapter 12: PAEI And The Lifecycle: Stage By Stage
        • Chapter 13: Predicting The Capability To Solve Problems
        • Chapter 14: The Causes Of Organizational Aging
        • Chapter 15: Structural Causes Of Aging
        • Chapter 16: Organizational Therapy
        • Chapter 17: Treating Organizations On The Typical Path: A Contingency Approach
        • Chapter 18: The Optimal Path
    • Other Books
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Bureaucrat

The mismanagement style with the code (-A--), which is strictly focused on how something is done. Bureaucrats are highly risk averse and slow in decision making because of paralysis due to over-analysis.

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