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How to get out of Founder's trap
- 3. Kongo Gumi
Construction/Osaka, Japan
Founded: 578 40th generation
©Ichak Adizes, Ph.D. 1971-2012
- 4. Masakazu Kongo
Flexibility in selecting leaders
Health, responsibility, talent for the job.
Not always a son.
Sons-in-law taking the family name
2007
©Ichak Adizes, Ph.D. 1971-2012
- 5. Hoshi Ryokan
Innkeeping/Komatsu, Japan
Founded: 718
46th generation
Hotel for 450 people in 100
rooms.
Zengoro Hoshi is the current
patriarch.
©Ichak Adizes, Ph.D. 1971-2012
- 7. Kombinat im. Stepana
Razina - 1795
Kamenskaja
Paper-Board
Mill - 1799
©Ichak Adizes, Ph.D. 1971-2012
- 8. FLEXIBILITY CONTROLLABILITY
HIGH
LOW PRIME
DEVELOPING AGING
©Ichak Adizes, Ph.D. 1971-2012
- 10. Go-go
Founder Trap
growing aging
©Ichak Adizes, Ph.D. 1971-2012
- 11. Go-go Phase Problems
Normal Problems
8 companies
See endless opportunities
A messy organization chart. Organized around
people, not functions.
Flexible direction
Centralized leadership delegating tasks but not
responsibility
Lots of drive
Too many priorities
Equate more sales with success
©Ichak Adizes, Ph.D. 1971-2012
- 12. Go-go Phase Problems
Abnormal Problems
Arrogance
No responsibilities assigned
No reaction to change in direction
No decision-making outside the leader or core
group
Decisions are reversed by the leader
©Ichak Adizes, Ph.D. 1971-2012
- 13. Mergers and acquisitions
Stable
Prime Aristocracy
Adolescence Early Bureaucracy
Go-go
Infancy Bureaucracy
Courtship Death
growing aging
©Ichak Adizes, Ph.D. 1971-2012
- 14. Their solutions
"Where did IIdeal IS loser?"
find this
"He is good, executive director
Ideal but for a son-in-law."
“Everyone wants to be Cary fishing,
"He is good, but to take him Grant.
Evena want to be Cary Grant”
to put I worm on a fishing hook."
Cary Grant.
©Ichak Adizes, Ph.D. 1971-2012
- 15. What they say
I throw away to them, they cannot
even see not to mention to catch
They slowly adapt to sudden changes
of organizational structure
When I wake up at 2am I do not
have anybody to call
©Ichak Adizes, Ph.D. 1971-2012
- 16. What they get
I do not talk on profit but to stay
normal, otherwise I do not nee profit
This is not just your toy, 1000 families
depend on it and earn their living in it
©Ichak Adizes, Ph.D. 1971-2012
- 18. Strategy
From market share to profitability
Focus on core capabilities
Identify what not to do
State values
Opportunity driven
Go-go
Founder’s
Trap
©Ichak Adizes, Ph.D. 1971-2012
- 19. Structure
Build accountability
Create borders between the founder and the
company
Structure around assignments and not
people
Teach to play positions
Go-go
Build a Board with outsiders Founder’s
Trap
Avoid small companies
Build profit centers
©Ichak Adizes, Ph.D. 1971-2012
- 20. Short run
Short run Short run Long run Short run Short run
Sales R&D Strategic Finance Personal
Marketing Production planning Accounting HRD
©Ichak Adizes, Ph.D. 1971-2012
- 21. General manager
An organization shouldMarketing Finance HRD
Administration PC Director R&D
be structured
Long run
by a genius, so that any idiot can run it.
Accounting Personal Sales Production
Rather then strcutred by an idiot –
Short run Short run
so just a genius can run it.
©Ichak Adizes, Ph.D. 1971-2012
- 22. Style
Mutual trust and respect by example
Build a complimentary team of P&A
Avoid the trap of “I am the Company”
Differentiate between personal and
corporation
Delegation without abdication Go-go
Founder’s
Trap
©Ichak Adizes, Ph.D. 1971-2012
- 24. Planning & Goals
Market share with minimum levels of
profitability
Develop policies, procedures, standards
Go-go
Founder’s
Trap
©Ichak Adizes, Ph.D. 1971-2012
- 26. XYZ
Marketing (Development)
HRD Finance
Projects Servis &
Purchasing Objects Trade mainteinance Support
Warehouse Objects 1 (Sales) (Sales) (Sales) Accounting
Objects 2 (Inventory) (Inventory) (Inventory) IT
Transport
Preparation Quality
Obects 3
assurance
Projecting
(Montage) Administration
Sales
(Inventory)
Workshop 1
Workshop 2
(Planing)
©Ichak Adizes, Ph.D. 1971-2012
- 27. PROFIT
MISSION STRUCTURE TRACKINGREWARDS
SYSTEM
ACCOUNTABILITY
©Ichak Adizes, Ph.D. 1971-2012
- 28. Goal Can
Reward
Goal Reward
Can
Reward
Goal Can
©Ichak Adizes, Ph.D. 1971-2012
- 29. How not to getting old?
(P A E i)
(P A E i)
(P A E i)
©Ichak Adizes, Ph.D. 1971-2012
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Decentralization
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- 31. ORGANIZATIONAL FAMILY
President of the Group
Infancy Aristocracy Prime Adolescence Go-go
Uniformity will lead to Bureaucracy
©Ichak Adizes, Ph.D. 1971-2012