Adizes Lifecycle Auditor v2.4

In 1990, I read “Corporate Lifecycles: How and Why Corporations Grow and Die and What to Do About It” by Ichak Adizes. What I found marvelous about the lifecycle concept was that it allowed one to investigate where an organization was on the lifecycle based on four management roles: P)roduce, A)dminister, E)ntrepreneuring, and I)ntegrating. Because of copyrights, I can’t display the diagram here, though you can view numerous versions at Adizes Lifecycle Diagram.

Over the years, I’ve looked at numerous organizations using this model, and it continues to be spot-on in terms of providing a sense of where the organization is, where it’s headed, and things it should do to get on track and headed for Prime.

In one of my recent 5 am trips to Starbucks, with no particular intent, Gemini and I ended up having a chat about the Adizes Model, concluding that it would be nice if there were a program that assisted in the audit of an organization, identified the current stage of the lifecycle, and provided food for thought as to what the organization might do to get back on the road to Prime.

In Feb 2026, I used my existing tools to develop an Adizes relationship model, documents for which you can find in the Adizes Corporate Lifecycle folder. Here’s the model.

Being that I’m at times like a dog with a bone this morning, I developed a prompt that asks numerous questions until it thinks it understands where the organization is on the lifecycle and can provide food for thought. If you go to the Free Tools folder, you can download ALA v2.4.txt. I developed this in Gemini, though you should be able to run it in any one of the LLM chats. Just load it, run it, and start answering the questions. Let me know how it works out.