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Have the Power, Do the Thing

In: Essence of a Manager

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  • Krishna Pillai

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A manager’s task is to elicit the necessary and sufficient actions from all those required to achieve a specific purpose. It is his social power which is a measure of his ability and capacity to mobilise actions from others. But it is his exercise of power which actually elicits actions. The exercise of power requires both direction and magnitude. Just the exercise of power and the generation of actions may not achieve his purpose. The actions could be misjudged or incorrect. The wrong actors may have been chosen. They may be incompetent or incapable. The actions may be unnecessary. Power can be dissipated if wrongly exercised. It is by the proper exercise of power that he can ensure that only those actions that are necessary are taken and that the actions taken are sufficient.

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  • Krishna Pillai, 2011. "Have the Power, Do the Thing," Springer Books, in: Essence of a Manager, chapter 0, pages 23-38, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-642-17581-7_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-17581-7_2
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