what about these! what's the meaning?

. Management is something we sort of pick up as we go along. Sure there are a few good instinctive managers, but invariably we stumble along picking up the odd hint and clue here and there – it is a very hit and miss operation.

The fundamental Rule of Management, I am afraid, is get the basic job done, get it done well and work bloody hard at it. No good being a fantastic people manager if you let the basic job slip.

No choice I am afraid. You have to knuckle down and get on with it. Management is swanning around issuing orders and looking cool. It is actually about what goes on in the background

If you slouch in late, argue with your customers, are disrespectful and produce shoddy work, chances are your team is going to go to hell in a handcart

. You are their leader, their inspiration, their boss (there is a word to make you shudder, but that is what you are), their mentor, guide, teacher, hero, role model, champion, defender, guardian.( and what is the deference between hero and champion?)


You have also got to go beyond that and raise their stakes. If you are going to build a team machine, then do it in a DeLorean. You have got to give your staff something to aspire to, something to want to raise themselves up to. That is you.

Ideally, you will have some style, some flair, some spark of originality that will set you apart from the herd