ABSTRACT
The management job is largely a job of projecting the future onto the present. It deals with what is going to happen rather than with what is happening, let alone with what has happened. It is not only a policy-making, but also a planning job. The decision what business the enterprise is engaged in also includes decisions what to do about developments in economic and social policy that are likely to affect the future economic performance and prosperity of the enterprise. The job of making and of keeping the human organization productive implies responsibility for the most efficient design of the individual's work, the grouping of man in a work team, and the ordering of the small teams into a productive whole. The problem of the qualification of the successor, of his selection, his training and his testing is as old as that of legitimate succession–and fully as difficult.
