What Management Is

Management exists to organize purposefully.What Management Is: How It Works and Why It’s Everyone’s Business [MS02] The whole purpose is to deliver results and build capacity. It’s conceptually easy but operationally difficult.

Apply simple—but not easy—practices consistently.

None of the practices described here—one-on-ones, portfolio management, feedback, coaching, delegation—is difficult to understand. They are simple practices. But the key to successful management is to consistently and reliably perform those practices.

Managers who never apply these practices are poor managers.

Managers who apply these practices intermittently are only average managers.

Great managers consistently and reliably apply all these management ...

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