Peter DruckerThe Practice of Management, 1954
The organ of institutions whose job is to make people capable of joint performance — setting objectives, organising, motivating, measuring and developing people, with results existing only outside the organisation.
Henri FayolGeneral and Industrial Management, 1916
To manage is to forecast and plan, to organise, to command, to coordinate and to control — the five universal functions of any managerial role.
Mary Parker FollettEarly 20th-century lectures
Popularly summarised as the art of getting things done through people — management as coordination of human effort rather than command over it.
The EclipseFrontiers® LensManagement is stewardship of human potential, not supervision of tasks.