an online book by David Gurteen
Management (or managing) is the administration of organizations, whether businesses, nonprofit organizations, or government bodies through business administration, nonprofit management, or the political science sub-field of public administration respectively. It is the process of managing the resources of businesses, governments, and other organizations.
Credit: Wikipedia - managementManagement is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could. | Steve Jobs Continue reading The Difference Between Management and Leadership Steve Jobs
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to yearn for the endless immensity of the sea. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Continue reading To Yearn for the Endless Immensity of the Sea Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Abstract In this paper, a new role for managers is advocated to create conditions for genuine collaborative engagement in Twenty-First Century organizations. The new role is as a facilitator of emancipatory dialogue, a discourse among parties that can lead to mutual learning, deep understanding and insight, and collaborative consciousness and action. The facilitator role is Continue reading The Manager as Facilitator of Dialogue Joseph A. Raelin
