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Gary Hamel’s The Future Manager discusses the needs and challenges that management will face in the future in order to remain relevant and be able to meet requirements of more technical consumers and to best utilize the resources to meet the needs of users and employees. Steve Jobs was a management visionary, extremely able to unite people and systems to accomplish the goals of the organization and turn out products people love.

My job is to not be easy on people. My job is to make them better. My job is to pull things together from different parts of the company and clear the ways and get the resources for the key projects.

And to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better, coming up with more aggressive visions of how it could be.

-Steve Jobs

The fundamental changes that future managers will need to make will center on:

1. Creating a democracy of ideas before making decisions.
2. Amplifying human imagination to see new ways of doing things.
3. Dynamically re-allocating resources to use things where they fit best.
4. Aggregating collective wisdom and learning from what has been done.
5. Minimizing the drag of old models; operating more “outside the box”.
6. Expanding the size of the group that participates in the decision making and feedback process of projects.

I would add one more to this list of principles that future managers will need to espouse:

7. Making a personal connection with your user-base. Putting a face (or faces) to the organization since users want to make personal connections and interact with their service providers. Be a Steve Jobs in your field.