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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
Marketing Executive
You never notice management unless it is poor
Software engineer
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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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