Basically, managing is about influencing action. Managing is about helping organizations and units to get things done, which means action. Sometimes, managers manage actions directly. They fight fires. They manage projects. They negotiate contracts.

You can teach all sorts of things that improve the practice of management with people who are managers. What you cannot do is teach management to somebody who is not a manager, the way you cannot teach surgery to somebody whose not a surgeon.

Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet

Strategy is a pattern in a stream of decisions

Management and leadership are not separate spheres. The two skills work together in the larger realm of “communityship.

It is time to recognize conventional MBA programs for what they are - or else to close them down. They are specialized training in the functions of business, not general educating in the practice of management.

Technologies tend to undermine community and encourage individualism.