The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
In every business, in every industry, management does matter.
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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.
Managing a country is like managing a company in many ways. It maybe involves more complicated issues, but it's the same skills.
Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.
Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in the structure, not from their relations with the people they are supposed to serve. The people are not masters of the bureaucracy, but its clients.
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
I think management is about just that - managing people via man-to-man skills.
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 dealmaking.