ABSTRACT
All organizations must depend upon the manager to operate the mechanisms of planning, control, and coordination, and any manager must have skills which particularly suit him/her to the position. Every manager in a nonprofit organization should be prepared to ask blunt questions of himself/herself and his/her organization and to answer the questions honestly. His/her administrative skills should include planning, organization, decision making, and analysis. Every decision made in the health care field is firmly rooted in political considerations. The power seeker usually assumes that a solution to a problem will arise only with his/her special brand of administration, and that his/her decisions are the best in the long run. He/she must have the technical expertise to understand the organization, the human skills to deal with the personnel with whom he/she must work, and the conceptual skills to develop the organization or prevent it from disintegrating.
