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The art of getting things done through people who'd rather you did it yourself.
means The work of planning, organizing, and directing people or resources to get something accomplished.
from Traces back to Italian maneggiare, 'to handle or train a horse,' itself rooted in Latin manus, 'hand.' The word rode into English partly through French manège (horsemanship) in the 16th century, carrying that sense of handling something skittish with skilled hands — which, if you've ever run a team, may feel uncomfortably apt.
- peter principle
- people get promoted until they're incompetent at the job
- drucker's line
- management is doing things right, leadership is right things
- span of control
- one manager per roughly seven people, ideally
- middle management
- invented to translate strategy into excuses