"To be effective is the job of the executive.
'To effect' and 'to execute' are, after all, near-Synonyms.
Whether he works in a business or in a hospital,
in government agencies or in the a labor union,
in a university of tin, the army,
The executive is, first of all, Expected to Get the Right Things Done.
And this is Simply That he is Expected to be effective. "
- Peter Drucker, 1967 -
There is literature that separates while firmly mindset "manager" with the mindset of "leader". That said, the manager thought to do Things right, while leaders think to do the right Things. These distinctions may actually also to sharpen the understanding, because it's a contrast usually makes us more easily understand and then remember a conceptual construction. However, after further thought, it is difficult for us to make that simple dichotomy. To perform its role effectively, ie moving the process of transformation, in addition to making her concern for people and the contribution to be meaningful and productive, however, a leader needs to live up to management as a paradigm of thinking.
Thus it seems what is necessary for management to be answered first. Various definitions can be proposed. Some say management is an art and a science - is the art and science of management. There is also a Getting Things management is done through and with other people. Collect 100 management books, it is likely more than 100 definitions to our collection.
Let's examine the validity of various nosy little definition. Earlier this note the following analogy. For example, we are asked to create a definition of "students who are smart." Then we said, "clever students are students who can graduate on time with a minimum GPA of 3." Definition is quite reasonable and acceptable. Well, now, if we are asked to create a definition of "students who are not smart," with relative ease we can answer using the definition that we created earlier as a basis. "Students who are not smart is a late graduate students with a GPA below 3."
Suppose you believe that management is an art and a science. Please help us to explain what is mismanagement. Remember, you must use these definitions as a basis. So, management is ...? Whether we can say, management is not an art and not a science? Do not think so. In conclusion, the jam! Please try fad like this with various other definitions of management. I never tried it. Many times. And the result is more or less the same: bad.
I tried to find out the answer why. And I think I have found the answer. In essence, the management seems more a "practical beings" rather than "being an academic." Therefore, understanding of management through "binoculars academic," such as making a definition, for example, will make us become a little tangled affairs. Conversely, using a practical way, such as making "the guidelines" may be more simple, functional and easy to understand management as a paradigm of thinking.
There are at least five signs for management. First, the process. Yes, something called the management if it is a process. There are dimensions of space and time. There are phases. There is movement and change. Involving inputs that are processed in such a way as to be output. There are mechanisms and procedures. Not instant. Do not know the term "essence." A little boy of course not understand, let alone live up to, management as a paradigm of thinking. Therefore, when he wanted to have new toys such as had his friend, he spontaneously said, "I just want a toy that is now!" Even if parents say, "Patience ya kid. His father had no money. Next month, yes, "answers the boy," I do not want to! Just now! "Well, evidently, forget management mindset to make our interactions with others standstill.
Although conditions in the example above is understandable, because the perpetrator child. But make no mistake, mismanagement in the process of thinking is essentially the same amount no less plagued by people his age and even older adults or dusk. Corruption, for example, is one of the gross behavior of its roots is a chronic disease model of instant thinking "I just want to be rich now." So, seen through the eyes of religion, corruption is a major sin. From the spectacle of positive law, corruption is a serious criminal offense (although often ease). While the lens of management, corruption is the mismanagement!