Future Management

Modern management recognizes that people are complex and variable. Employees need change over time; people possess a range of talents and capabilities that can be developed. Organizations and managers should respond to individuals with a wide variety of managerial strategies and job opportunities.Successful managers recognize valuable insights that can broaden a manager's options in solving problems and achieving organizational goals.

 Some key thoughts to be considered as the 21st century progresses:

• The commitment to meet customer needs 100 percent of the time guides organizations toward quality management and continuous improvement of operations.
• Today's global economy is a dramatic influence on organizations and opportunities to learn new ways of managing from practices in other countries
• Organizations must reinvest in their most important asset, their people. If organizations cannot make the commitment to lifelong employment, they must commit to using attrition to reduce head count. They will not receive cooperation unless they make it clear that their people will not be working themselves out of a job.
• Managers must excel in their leadership responsibilities to perform numerous different roles.

For future management there will still be the same skills needed by managers as they do today if not more:

• Technical: this skill requires the ability to use a special expertise to perform particular tasks.  Managers acquire these skills initially through formal education and then further develop them through training and job experience. Technical skills are most important at lower levels of management.
• Human: this skill demonstrates the ability to work well in cooperation with others. Human skills emerge in the workplace as a spirit of trust, enthusiasm, and involvement in interpersonal relationships. A manager with good human skills has a high degree of self-awareness and the ability to understand the feelings of others. Some managers are naturally born with great human skills, while others improve their skills through classes or experience.
• Conceptual: this skill calls for the ability to think analytically. Analytical skills enable managers to break down problems into smaller parts, to see the relations among the parts, and to recognize the implications of any one problem for others. As managers assume ever-higher responsibilities in organizations, they must deal with more larger problems that have long-term consequences. The higher the management level, the more important conceptual skills become.

Being The Leader.

Effective business leadership is based on the functions of the leader, not just someone who's standing by the watch. A business leader is like a captain of a ship, you need to be an active and assertive person and not passive. Leadership is a combination of personality traits and the ability to think and act as a leader. Any leader knows that you can't just say you're a leader, you transform yourself to become the individual who takes the lead.

There are some guidlines to to being a successful leader:

1. Planning: the core of a business is being proactive, leaders identify potential problems and solving them before it becomes a crisis. Leaders also plan new opportunities for a business.

2. Organizing: a leader takes charge, gives instructions for groups to implement plans. The leader creates a vision, its essential to good leadership. Vision provides direction and without direction there isn't a point to planning.

3. Leading: at this stage, the leader takes charge and puts together the planning, organizing and takes action. As a leader, you are the one who makes the decisions and chooses the appropriate actions that should be carried out. 

4. Insipring: leadership is defined through action, in developing your own business leadership skills, you have to act in ways that are fitting to your leadership vision.

We can all name many actions of other people but what inspires us is the integrity that gives these actions meaning.