Management Prose and Poetry

There are no neat categories when it comes to management actions which resemble prose and those which are more poetic. What resounds beautifully when one person does it may clank when done by another. Good and poor management can have a "know it when you see it" nature because the mixture of events and personalities is fluid and the waves shift. I've seen measures which are acclaimed by groups which would have detested them a couple of years or even months earlier.

That's why you want your study and experience to build a reserve of intuition which can be called upon even when you are unaware of the calling. You want your instinctive choices to be based on that knowledge and not on mere nerve endings.

We often pretend to reason what we have already known. In many instances we know the footnotes long before writing the paper.