I think management is about just that - managing people via man-to-man skills.
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Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a magnificent profession.
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 about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.
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.
A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his men to do the work better than he can.
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
Management is getting people together to figure out how to transform inputs into outputs. In the process of figuring out the process of how people work together, you've got to figure out who's got what responsibilities, and how do they work together.
My idea of management is that what your job is as the boss is to find really good people and empower them and leave them alone.
Management must manage!
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.