The Ultimate Manager
No two days in human history came without a night between
them and there never happened a day without sun and a night full of sun light. The
seasons are matched with the ecological cycles to give rise and fall to species and the solar system has nicely been managed ab initio. Who is managing all this?
Allah, the Ultimate Manager, manages the universe in its
entirety; he is the manager who controls the universe in entire expanse.
No one else was there to manage, but one Allah. He then
delegated his powers to his vicegerent on earth – the human being. However, the
vicegerent proved an imperfect manager, still learning theories of management
after centuries of existence. He spent a lot of time to define management. He
has learnt a lot, but he is still far away from perfection.
My book published by
Learning Point Associates and this blog is also one of the efforts to understand management.
The basis of all knowledge and of management
Allah manages the universe in its full
expanse. HE placed human being on earth as vicegerent to manage worldly things
by knowledge and skills granted to him. He gave humans a powerful skill –the skill
to build knowledge by naming things created by Him. The skill captures
knowledge to further control of humans over the world. The skill seems very
simple; it is just a skill to name things or to put names and labels on things
i.e. define things. But to define things and study their interrelationships is
the essence of knowledge in all fields. For example, chemistry named 109
elements and now studies their interrelationship to build more and more knowledge
about chemistry itself. Similarly, a language defines nouns, verbs; adverbs
etc. to study their interrelationship. My book on management is nothing, but
the application of the same skill in management field. We define management,
manager, and their functions to study the interrelationships. We build theories
to understand the inter-relationships.
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