Managing a country is like managing a company in many ways. It maybe involves more complicated issues, but it's the same skills.
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The toughest thing about managing is knowing your personnel and what it can give you under all conditions.
More and more, in any company, managers are dealing with different cultures. Companies are going global, but the teams are being divided and scattered all over the planet.
Basically, managing is about influencing action. Managing is about helping organizations and units to get things done, which means action. Sometimes, managers manage actions directly. They fight fires. They manage projects. They negotiate contracts.
Many think of management as cutting deals and laying people off and hiring people and buying and selling companies. That's not management, that's deal making. Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a magnificent profession.
Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a magnificent profession.
Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term.
I think management is about just that - managing people via man-to-man skills.
The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.
Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away.
Running a government as chief minister and managing affairs of the nation are different things.