A Management Model: Part 1

What is management? Is management a part of something bigger? Who should be a manager? Who can be a manager? 

Management is one component of a three part structure.

Two parts, supervision and management, are mandatory. The organization cannot function without them.

The third, leadership, is optional and often missing from organizations.

Supervision: real time, task focused, get the immediate job done for the customers, clients or patients.

Management:

 a cycle of Planning > Organizing > Directing >Controlling > Feedback. 

Management must be customized by organization and level of authority within the organization, so the CEO of the company has a different approach than a plant manager who has a different approach than a store manager.

Leadership: the ability to inspire, to create movement and action, the ability to improve people and create future managers and maybe future leaders.

A title does not insure leadership. Authority does not create or insure leadership.

The presence of management and supervision does not insure leadership.

More information will follow (we think shorter posts read easier).