The basis of the book is the author's forty years of experience working with hundreds of companies. During this time, Yitzhak Adizes developed his own method of successful management. His sensational theory is based on the identification of any company with a living organism. Accordingly, each corporation goes through different periods of its development - from birth to decline. The author gives answers to popular questions: why some companies become successful and others go bankrupt, how to identify problems in the field of management and find an effective solution, whether there are methods of preventing "diseases" within the company. This book is an elixir of eternal youth and prosperity for any corporation.Yitzhak Adizes is one of the world's leading experts in the field of improving business efficiency. The founder and president of the Adizes Institute in the USA, the author of 27 books, he taught at many universities, in particular at Stanford University, cooperated with Bank of America, Coca-Cola Bottling, IBM and many others in 52 countries of the world, and also holds the 28th position in the rating Top 100 Leadership Consultants.