Boris Vukic, Senior Associate Adizes South East Europe has recently published his first article on Serbia's National SME Association's website entitled, "The Wild Species." This article explores people's motivations for undertaking new business ventures. It discusses the diffe...

Carlos Valdesuso is a Principal Adizes Associate with extensive international experience in information technology, organizational structure and business strategy for a variety of companies in banking, insurance and service industries. He has worked with Adizes since 1975. Fur...

It is a fad among New Age personal-growth gurus to preach that each of us should go back and revisit childhood, to relearn how it feels to be full of wonder and curiosity, happy, living in the moment.Why is childhood such a joyful time? Because we are integrated. We have no pa...

In his seminal book Lateral Thinking (New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1973), Dr. Edward De Bono coined the phrase “to think out of the box.”I would like to discuss some examples in which I not just solved a problem by thinking out of the box, but by ACTING out of the box, in the h...

I am in the Sahaj Marg Ashram in the Himalayas, trying once again to free myself of the bad habit of expecting, of wishing.What is going on?To expect is a prescription for frustration. When you expect something to happen, or when you expect someone to do something, you’re suff...

My recent trip started in Santa Rosa, California, where I spent one month at the True North Health Center, learning to keep to a strict SOS vegan diet: no Salt, no Oil, no Sugar, and no animal products (meat, fish or fowl, eggs or dairy). Just vegetables and fruit, and for sta...

“Women want love. Men want respect.”I do not remember where I read this, but it stuck in my mind and I have been reflecting on it ever since. What do you think?Now, please note: I do not support the idea that women do not want respect. It is a question of priorities. Women wan...

On one hand, it’s hard not to notice that the world is becoming “smaller.”The Internet is one cause; others include air travel; a reduction in visa requirements; the rise of multinational corporations, especially in the hospitality industry (and they all serve the same America...

In a previous blog, "What can we learn from Dion," I raised the question: Why is Dion so different? I wrote about how he decides and implements without wavering, without wasting energy doing the transition from decision to implementation.Most mortals, myself included, decide b...

I just finished a book I could not put down until the last page: Treblinka, by Jean-Francois Steiner. Originally published in French in 1966, it has been translated into 16 languages. Simon & Schuster first published the English translation in 1967.The book is a kind of diary ...