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.
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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.
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.
Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.
Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.
Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a magnificent profession.
Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.
In every business, in every industry, management does matter.
I describe management as arts, crafts and science. It is a practice that draws on arts, craft and science and there is a lot of craft - meaning experience - there is a certain amount of craft meaning insight, creativity and vision, and there is the use of science, technique or analysis.
I hate management. I hate management. I just do.
I think management is about just that - managing people via man-to-man skills.