Reading this chapter will help you do the following:
Learn who managers are and about the nature of their work.
Know why you should care about leadership, entrepreneurship, and strategy.
Know the dimensions of the planning-organizing-leading-controlling (P-O-L-C) framework.
Learn how economic performance feeds social and environmental performance.
Understand what performance means at the individual and group levels.
Create your survivor’s guide to learning and developing principles of management.