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| "It is a manager's job to automate and delegate, without having to hesitate or deviate." - Douglas E. Castle's First Principle Of Management |
Management is a profession unto itself. It is the art and science of accomplishing things by optimally leveraging the resources available, both human and machine. The general objective is accomplish the greatest output by using the best possible mixture of inputs.
The conventional wisdom is that if a manager is fully successful at his or her job, he or she will reach a point where they have virtually rendered themselves obsolete through the brilliant use of automation, delegation, instruction and inspiration.
Ironically, a manager's job is to put himself or herself out of work. Happily, despite this self-extinction paradox, good managers, particularly senior level experts with good communications and command skills, are in high demand, and they tend to rise ever-higher [this is not quite the Peter Principle -- it's more like a territorial gain through victory and conquest than a "getting the boot upstairs"] within the organizations which are fortunate enough to have them.
It's childishly simple, but is indeed good enough, and true enough for me to call it Douglas E. Castle's First Principle Of Management:
"It is a manager's job to automate and delegate, without having to hesitate or deviate." Did somebody from the back say "Amen?"
Remember: Douglas E. Castle's First Principle Of Management
And you first read about it on THE TAKING COMMAND BLOG!
And you thought that we Commanders aren't permitted a bit of levity every so often. Well then.
p.s. On a serious note, please always bear in mind that every commander is a manager, but not every manager can be a commander.
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