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Management is both art and science. It is the art of making people more effective than they would have been without you. Management doesn't necessarily mean managing people. Management starts with planning. Look at all the probable scenarios. Plan for them. Figure out the worst possible scenario and plan for that too. Evaluate your different plans and develop what, in your best judgement, will work the best and what you will do if it doesn't. Make sure everything is going according to the plan. When it isn't going according to plan, you need to step in and adjust the plan.
Management is like investment. Managers have resources to invest - their time, talent and, possibly, human resources. The goal (function) of management is to get the best return on such resources by getting things done efficiently.The best managers are very strategic about themselves. They recognize that time and other resources are scarce, that competitive pressures demand efficient use of everything.
The need for good managers is not going away. It is intensifying. The first steps to becoming a really great manager are simply common sense; but common sense is not very common. One of the most cited characteristics of successful managers is that of vision. Of all the concepts in modern management, this is the one about which the most has been written. Communicating a vision is not simply a case of painting it in large red letters across your office wall, but rather bringing the whole team to perceive your vision and to begin to share it with you.
Management, like any other skill, is something that you can improve at with study and practice.
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