what's the meaning of "manage for"?

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1) What's the difference between "manage uncertainty" and "manage for uncertainty"?2) What's the difference between "manage for something bad" and "manage for something good"?

Elanguest · Accepted Answer

These don't sound like very common terms. Can you give some examples of them in an actual text?

Ethanc · Answer

Searching "Manage for" by google, you can get results like these:

1) Manage for Profit, Not for Market Share;

2)Manage for proformance;
3)Manage for success; (for something good)
4)Learning how to Manage for drought;(for something bad)
5)Manage for impact; (for something bad)
6)Manage for growth; (for something good)
7)using the past to manage for the future;

From a paper about project management, I read this: "How we manage for uncertainty is at the core of improvement of project performance.".

Elanguest · Answer

Okay, it's always best to write complete sentences, because it's often hard to know what phrases mean out of context.

For the sentence you did give, which uses manage for uncertainty, I'd say it means to prepare for unexpected problems. In contrast, manage uncertainty could mean how a person handles uncertainty while in the midst of it.

For numbers 5 and 6, if you want to write out the whole sentences, I can try to help you with them.

Anonymous · Answer

Thank you very much.
5) Using M&E to Manage for impact. - http://www.ifad.org/evaluation/guide/2/
6) Manage for growth - http://cn.linkedin.com/company/manage-for-growth/products

Thanks again.

Elanguest · Answer

It looks like in these examples, the word for is being used in the sense of for the purpose of, or to accomplish, i.e. how to manage in such a way to accomplish growth or impact.

Ethanc · Answer

So, "manage for something" is not the same thing as "manage something". Is thar right?
And back to my two questions at the beginning, could you please give me a summary of using 'manage for'?

Thanks a lot.
ethanc

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Searching "Manage for" by google, you can get results like these:

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