BASIC PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT
THE GENERATION OF CHANGE: Part I
 

 

  1. An objective specifies action and results within a specified time frame and within cost constraints. The commitment to do something, to take action, is fundamentally an objective. Accomplishment results from the action taken.  The statement of an objective must include a stated completion date for reaching it.
     
  2. Change = risk = embracing new activities. You plan in order to move your consciousness forward, a commitment to change as a continual process of making entrepreneurial decisions. The only constant in change is the commitment to the ongoing process of self-development, continual self-development, self-actualization, the actualization of self in the achievement of goals.
     
  3. Mgmt. implies that you control the direction of change: you can invent and create your own future.  The most effective change processes are incremental:  Step-by-step, small successes as you move down the path.
     
  4. Autonomy:  Don't wait for help from others, take things into your own hands and make things happen, and take action.  Maturity means abandoning the idea that there is some "permission" you must seek in order to engage reality and to pursue your goals/ambitions.
     
  5. Planning:  Influencing and controlling the nature of change.  Planning involves selecting future courses of action from among many alternatives.  PLANNING IS THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL OF M FUNCTIONS AND CANNOT BE DELEGATED.
     
  6. The M makes the future:  Knows what he is going to make happen.  He says, "This shall be," then guides human effort to the fulfillment of the objective.  The M can never delegate goal-setting, since this is his basic job.
     
  7. Problems arise from actions without thought.  Failure to plan is planning to fail.  Never execute an activity until there is a mental solidity behind it:  You are committed to it and it has been thoroughly thought out.  Don't act outside the strategic plan.
     
  8. We move in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts, toward achieving what we are thinking about. When we expect something to materialize in our lives, it inevitably does.  Concentrate on achieving one goal at a time:  Like a ship which can go only to one port.  Be specific.
     
  9. SPEND A LOT OF TIME WITH A CALENDAR, SETTING OUT PLANS, GOALS, SCHEDULES, ETC.
     
  10. Top-achievers are single-minded in their ability to focus on the most important goal.
     
  11. The ”event” is the lure that concretizes existence, creates reality and is the basis for interaction with others: The event makes the interaction real because it points it to a goal or objective.
     
  12. The event is something to look forward to: an impetus to development and a way of increasing or deepening one’s involvement with reality.
     
  13. You invent or create the future by planning events that permit you to express your being: to communicate your ideas and  accomplish what you are trying to accomplish (through communication with others).
     
  14. The event is mentally represented and you have a conception of what you want to happen at this event.
     
  15. The word generous comes from the same root as genial, generative and genius.  The genius has the ability to give everything & hold nothing back.  Perhaps genius can be defined in terms of givingness.
     
  16. Credibility: People must trust you before they will permit you to influence them emotionally (or to believe what you say).
     
  17. Success: means mastering a few strategies that are easy to manage. Concentrate on big-win strategies and starve the rest.
  18. The main variable in being successful: Deciding what it is you wish to make happen.
     
  19. There is no more productive use of time than planning ahead. The more time spent in advance planning on a project, the less total time is required for it.
     
  20. The manager says, "This shall be," then guides the efforts toward the fulfillment of the objective.
     
  21. The more clearly defined the objective, the greater the probability of fulfilling it.
     
  22. The results one obtains are inversely proportional to the degree one is intimidated.
     
  23. You start at the end, where you want to wind up, then plan from there. Planning requires going over the premises, assumptions, performance and goals again & again: It is an iterative process. Each time you perform an iteration, you learn a little more about the challenge.
     
  24. Purposing: The ongoing process of gaining clarity, consensus and commitment on the mission.
     
  25. Planning: The original decision-making step of management-action, the selection of future courses of action from among alternatives: The most basic of managerial functions.
     
  26. Top-achievers do one thing well at a time. They are single-minded in their ability to focus on the most important goal. The probability of a future event occurring increases as a function of the effort systematically applied toward its realization.