Definition of Management

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Management

The act or art of managing; the manner of treating, directing, carrying on, or using, for a purpose; conduct; administration; guidance; control; as, the management of a family or of a farm; the management of state affairs.

Business dealing; negotiation; arrangement.

Judicious use of means to accomplish an end; conduct directed by art or address; skillful treatment; cunning practice; -- often in a bad sense.

The collective body of those who manage or direct any enterprise or interest; the board of managers.

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Management Quotations

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
Stephen Covey

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
Stephen Covey

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.
Warren Buffett

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Peter Drucker

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
Peter Drucker

Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.
Peter Drucker

The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.
Peter Drucker

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
Peter Drucker

Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.
Edward Kennedy

Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.
Brian Tracy

Management Translations

management in Afrikaans is beheer, administrasie, kontrole
management in Dutch is administratiekantoor
management in German is Leitung, Handhabung, Verwaltung
management in Italian is maneggio, direzione, economato
management in Latin is discessio, cura, procuratio

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