Lecture 1 - What is management

I think I had most of the points: This is what I had writen before Dr J went into this
Q1) What is your personal definition of a manager? (Is this different from the question "what is management"?) Handles resources - both human and financial - for some gain or goal
Q2 What does a manager do? Leadership, Decides, Responsibility, Motivates , delegation,
These are pretty descriptive - I think that more normatively managers tend to deal with Crisises and interpersonal problems.
Q3 Link to company success? I guess there is a link . If managers were to use the resources they control effectively/efficiently and make the right decisions.

Observation: The only problem I see it is that managers tend to be promoted not on their ability to manage but on other criterea.. such as good technically.

On the Balloon incident .. The manager should have had the engineer in the balloon with him and delegated the navigation.. The engineer has no idea where the balloon has to go .. he just makes it fly . The manager tells him where to fly (and how much to charge for the ride?)
That fits in with the CSA -> DSA current to desired state

for my ref:

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