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Management Is More Difficult, but It’s Not Mission Impossible

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Management has always been a challenge. But managing in the modern world has become ever more difficult and time-consuming. Not only are people harder to manage, we seem to have created organizations in which many of our managers are now even less well equipped for the task.

The truth always turns out to be simpler than you thought

Richard Feynman

We are now overled and undermanaged

Henry Mintzberg

Our organization is now so lean and mean, we’re like the Cheshire cat. The grin is there, but precious little else

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You never notice management unless it is poor

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    “Il n’y a pas de grand homme pour son valet-de-chambre” (Mme A. M. Bigot de Cornuel).

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McNulty, T., Marks, R. (2016). Management Is More Difficult, but It’s Not Mission Impossible. In: Management by Permission. Management for Professionals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25247-6_2

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