Career Guidance / General Management

“Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing”. ~Warren Bennis “Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them”. ~Paul Hawken Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people. Social scientists study management as an academic discipline, investigating areas such as social organization and organizational leadership. Some people study management at colleges or universities; major degrees in management include Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.) and Master of Business Administration (MBA.) and for the public sector, they study Master of Public Administration (MPA). Individuals who aim to become management specialists or experts, management researchers or professors may complete the Doctor of Management (DM), the Doctor of Business Administration (DBA), or the PhD in Business Administration or Management. General Manager is an executive who has overall responsibility for managing both the revenue and cost elements of a company’s income statement, known as profit & loss (P&L) responsibility. A general manager usually oversees most or all of the firm’s marketing and sales functions as well as the day-to-day operations of the business. Frequently, the general manager is responsible for effective planning, delegating, coordinating, staffing, organizing, and decision making to attain profit-making results for an organization.