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Par ailleurs, la direction de l’entreprise, où se prennent les décisions, nécessite, beaucoup plus que des techniciens, des économistes ou des énarques, des esprits formés à une connaissance pluridisciplinaire et à une pensée complexe (y compris la conscience de l’écologie de l’action et la pratique de la stratégie en situation aléatoire).

Every company I talked to had middle and even senior managers who operated as player-coaches, tasked with both doing things and directing others.”

This was how the bank president handled his time. Monday and Friday he had his operating meetings, saw senior executives on current matters, was available to important customers, and so on. Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday afternoons were left unscheduled—for whatever might come up; and something of course always did, whether urgent personnel

in most companies people are doing two jobs: their actual job and the job of managing others’ impressions of how they’re doing their job. For us, that’s terrible.

Peter Drucker said that if people spend more than 25 percent of their time in meetings, it is a sign of malorganization. I would put it another way: the real sign of malorganization is when people spend more than 25 percent of their time in ad hoc mission-oriented meetings.

O TRONO POR TRÁS DA MESA-REDONDA O TRABALHO DO GESTOR É DIRIGIR UM PROCESSO DE TOMADA DE DECISÕES QUE GARANTA QUE TODAS AS PERSPECTIVAS SEJAM CONSIDERADAS E, SE NECESSÁRIO, DAR O VOTO DE MINERVA E TOMAR A DECISÃ

The job of management in a professional firm is not to develop a strategy for the partners, but to ensure that they develop one for themselves.

Too Much Management, Not Enough Leadership