ON DIRECTING
No matter how the plans carefully planned, no matter how organized it is and how suitable the people for the work and the positions are, without direction from the immediate person, how can they act? Everyone is different individual with their own perceptions and evaluations of the plan. Possessed with initiatives and abilities--- they can be autonomous but, this being autonomous of a man somehow not applicable when things and situations require a solid effort of unity and cooperation. Ergo, these bunch of people still needs someone to direct them towards to what goals they must accomplish, together. Directing is said to be the heart of the management process, a "life-spark of an enterprise", a central character, the essence of all the planning, organizing, and staffing matter. It is the function of influencing (the employees through respect and integrity), motivating (them through inspirations, appreciation, and ideal challenge), instructing (them in a clear, easy, and consi...