Generally Accepted Management Principles are the "best practices" of management. Functionally we Plan, we Direct, we Control our businesses and organizations. All management practices can, in part or in whole, fall into these categories at any point in time. If your thinking about doing something, you're planning, if you're executing it, you're directing, and as you carry it out, you seek to influence the outcome to achieve what you intend, you control.
But how well these functions occur and how we fulfill them, well, that is another story.
This is why it is important to be aligned with a group of peers, who are all trying to function or operate their businesses or organizations in ways where Planning, Directing and Controlling happen in a "best practice" view. Frankly, it's difficult and sometimes lonely to try to build a business when you think that it all rests on you. And frankly it does, but there are was of sharing the burden.
The management skills that are required to operate your business, recruiting, interviewing and selecting the RIGHT people, training them well, providing management that gets this done, leadership that develops people and your vision and so forth, can all be executed by gaining excellence in these three management functions- Planning, Directing, and Controlling.
See it's easy. NOT. As someone once said: There are simple answers, but there are no easy answers.
Jeffrey Pelletier, MA
651-492-8540
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