The Importance of Management

OK so kinda scrambling to find a topic and wanted to talk a little bit about the importance of management in general not just PM.

Management as intangible as it is, is crucial to any organization. Clarity of vision, facilitating communication, and focusing work efforts is the role of management in general and in my experience its a rare thing to have clear thinking management in position.

Whether its the pressures to perform or that the majority of management is pulled from the rank and file technicians of an organization who by virtue of their work earned their commission not taking into the account that management skill and expertise are rare skills to be sure.

Some Principles that Have to be there to make it work:

A Vision Shared and Articulated Vision - Management has to get their resources on the same page.

Empower and Be Empowered Command Style - This means you trust the people that are under you to do their jobs and provide them an atmosphere to do so.

Versed in the Art and proficient in the science - You understand people and the situations and can artfully navigate them to a positive outcome and you understand the science of management the generation of performance metrics and the processes to get them.

Hopefully this helps a little on the management aspects of project management

- Optimal Optimus