Head of State holds meeting with head of Adizes Institute

ASTANA. KAZINFORM - President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev has held a meeting with the CEO of Adizes Institute Ichak Adizes, Ph.D, the press service of Akorda reports.

The round table discussed the issues of the Institute's cooperation with large local companies. The President stressed the importance of the introduction of advanced management principles for careful strategic planning aimed at improving domestic companies' competitiveness. In turn, I.Adizes shared his views on key aspects of the interaction between government and business. In this context, he noted the importance of further implementation of Samruk-Kazyna NWF transformation program. Dr. Adizes is founder and president of the Adizes Institute, based in Santa Barbara, California, an international consulting company that applies the Adizes Methodology for clients in the public and private sectors. The Adizes Institute was ranked as one of the top ten consulting organizations in the United States by Leadership Excellence Journal. In addition to consulting to prime ministers and cabinet-level officers throughout the world, Dr. Adizes has worked with a wide variety of companies ranging from startups to members of the Fortune 50. He lectures in four languages, and has appeared before well over 100,000 executives in more than 50 countries. He has written 17 books that have been published in 26 languages. His book Corporate Lifecycles: How Organizations Grow and Die and What to Do about It (subsequently revised, expanded and republished as Managing Corporate Lifecycles) was named one of the Ten Best Business Books by Library Journal.