Core Management Principles: No Flavors of the Month

Managers trying to do a better job have plenty flavors of the month to choose from: total quality management, continuous improvement, empowerment, teamwork—the list is endless.

Everyone is searching for a magic bullet to improve productivity; however, they would have greater success in relying on the core principles of effective management, identified more than fifty years ago.

Scholars over the years have presented the principles from different viewpoints and with different terminology, bu...