The Key to Management is Trust
General — by John Wilson February 9, 2009
PIJ #40, June – Aug 1991
Very often ‘management’ is mistaken for control. And control usually leads to friction and so is inefficient – there is wasted energy. Control also stifles creativity, our best management tool. True management then, is a far more subtle relationship in which trust, communication and control intermingle towards common goals. And the key to it all is trust.
Possibly the only way to lasting peace and harmony, whether between states or within communities or even families is the gradual dissolution of the hierarchical approach and the building up of trust.
And so too with the Earth. We try to control the earth as we do people. We call it management. But true management of the earth and its resources is about understanding and trust. If we do not trust the millions of years of development that has brought the earth to today, if we do not trust the ability of the earth and its ecosystems to provide what we need when we manage it (instead of trying to control it) we are doomed to fail.
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