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Adizes Graduate School (AGS) - offers unique, flexible, interdisciplinary Masters or PhD degrees online. Programs provide an opportunity for integral study in terms of change management, sustainability, complexity, leadership, organizational management and managing change in complex systems. The online degrees attract consulting professionals, change agents and leaders in the profit and nonprofit sectors interested in sustainable cross-disciplinary applications, including Adizes and Spiral Dynamics. Transformational change management methods are intended for use with individuals, organizations, and society. Take a class, or earn your PhD degree online!

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Earn your MA, PhD, or a Dual-track MA/PhD degree online. Terms start in May and September 2009 with accelerated (combined live/online) courses available in March and November.
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NEWS FLASH: 
Adizes 31st International Convention in Las Vegas for 2009!

SPIRAL DYNAMICS: Dr. Don E. Beck, faculty at AGS, was invited to introduce spiral dynamics to 700 Fatah members in Palestine on February 2, 2008 followed by a meeting with the Peres Center for Peace. High level Knesset members, and businesses in Israel during the week. ADIZES NEWS: Dr. Ichak Adizes received his 8th Honorary Doctorate! JOIN US for the 31st Adizes International Convention, SDi - July 1-3, 2009. Dr. Ichak Adizes will lead 'A Day with Dr. Adizes' on on July 1st, followed by the Opening Reception. He will present the Founders Session on July 2nd, and the CEO Forum on July 3rd. Also included are presentations by Dr. Beck and several AGS Graduate Students! Join us in Las Vegas! Click here for details!

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance. - - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

The online PhD degree program is open to students holding a Masters Degree, 30 units of graduate credit, or a Bachelors (extra coursework required). The online PhD degree requires nine courses plus three terms of supervised writing. Faculty experienced in distance education encourage an interactive forum and a Socratic form of inquiry in collegial groups of 3-10 participants. 

The Capstone Project enables doctoral degree candidates to develop their own model for managing change in their own unique context through the analysis and critical examination of existing literature. Students will focus on qualitative methods and integrate multiple theories on change and complexity into a new functional management design. They will critique Adizes methods and other management applications, such as spiral dynamics, in context.

Sample syllabus:
Systems Thinking: Modeling Complexity ...taught by Dr. Bruce LaRue, co-author of Leading Organizations from the Inside Out (2nd ed., 2006).

The Masters Degree requires 10 courses plus a thesis or written examination. Alternately, students holding a Bachelors Degree can enroll in a dual-track online Doctorate with or without completing a Masters Thesis or Exam. A total of 14 classes are required for the dual-track.

Core Programming:

lifecycle-spiral-vert0202The Adizes Methodology: For over 30 years, the Methodology has been recognized as a cutting-edge structured system for managing accelerated organizational change. At the heart is the fundamental principle that organizations - like living organisms, have a natural lifecycle: they will exhibit predictable and repetitive patterns of behavior as they grow and age. At each new stage of development, they face a unique set of challenges. How well or poorly these challenges are addressed and necessary changes made, ultimately determines the sustainability of the organization. Dr. Adizes has received five (6) international honorary doctorates for his work.
Spiral Dynamics: Spiral Dynamics is an evolutionary-based framework that provides scaffolding upon which numerous other theories of management, leadership, motivation, organizational design, communication, and social change can either be built or integrated. It maps out specific strategies and tactics for the meshing of healthy systems and demonstrates the root causes of - and solutions to - unhealthy change in societal, organizational, and personal evolution. Spiral Dynamics provides a way of understanding the awakening and migration of ideas. It offers an integral context for thinking in terms of sustainability, sequences, systems, and life cycles.

Demonstration Classroom:   click here to get to the log-in page for all students. Visitors do not need to log-in. Just scroll down to the Demo Classroom link and see how it works!

At AGS:

  • There is no application fee or software to install
  • There are six-week breaks between terms for catching up with family and friends
  • The Masters or online doctoral degree can be completed in as little as 3 years
  • We offer limited financial aid on a per-term basis.
  • Earn your PhD degree online! Why wait?

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You've created a wonderful "gestalt" of contents with many connections to the processes of change and transformation.  I had the feeling of holding a kaleidoscope and becoming addicted to its different forms, components, colors, movements ... Processing this provided an excellent challenge - to combine experience, research and thought. It was an amazing experience that gave me an opportunity to focus, as well as to develop new insights.
- Atalia Or, Consultant

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The readings really stretched our comprehension, the variety was just great, many new concepts introduced. The insight and contribution of each student really enhanced the learning process. By examining how to make this knowledge actionable, I could easily make the connection to my institution and the wider systems in which we operate at SIAST.
- G. Sarkar,
Academic Director - Planning, Research and Development.
Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science & Technology.

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