Anecdotal Data Is Not Incidental To Theory

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.

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.

So Technologies, Whether It Is A Telephone Or An Iphone, Computers In General Or Automobiles, Television Even, All Individualize Us. We All Sit In Front Of Our Iphones And Communicating But Are We Really Communicating?

Technologies Tend To Undermine Community And Encourage Individualism.

The Great Myth Is The Manager As Orchestra Conductor. It's This Idea Of Standing On A Pedestal And You Wave Your Baton And Accounting Comes In, And You Wave It Somewhere Else And Marketing Chimes In With Accounting, And They All Sound Very Glorious. But Management Is More Like Orchestra Conducting During Rehearsals, When Everything Is Going Wrong.