Man in Human: The Scarcity in Abundance
Managing the Manager
Some 40 years ago, Professor B. S. Rao, during a system dynamics discussion at the National Institute of Industrial Engineering, Mumbai, described “manager as the one who could manage at least one person other than herself.” We overwhelmingly subscribe to this, albeit with one adaptation that is exceptional in prevailing times. It is exigent upon us to explicitly introduce the inseparable man–nature relationship extension to the definition of the manager even if it were implicit in the definition originally put forward by the professor. In an altered definition of the manager, therefore, we would like to elucidate the description of a manager as the one who could manage at ...
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