The phrase "as if managing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where someone is behaving or acting in a way that resembles managing, often in a hypothetical or imaginative context.
Example: "She spoke to the team as if managing a large corporation, even though it was just a small project."
Alternatives: "as though overseeing" or "like directing".
We retreated to scaring people with stories of calamity if central state control and uniformity were lifted, from post-code lotteries to "the BNP will be running schools if you give them half a chance" (as if managing both problems was beyond the wit of a modern polity).
As if managing health care insurance isn't complicated enough already, the Supreme Court is expected to rule soon on the constitutionality of the partially implemented Affordable Care Act.
It's as if managing a slow decline into their retirement was their aim, not unleashing potential to propel their businesses into the future.
As if managing an overcrowded Emergency Room, you triage the new messages as quickly as you can: this one's dying in the waiting room (handle immediately), that one has a bruise (ignore for now, and probably forever), etc.
If Torre continues to act as if managing in 2005 will be his choice, Steinbrenner cannot wave the possibility of an extension over his head.
"I'm stunned because we felt it could still work as a pub if managed properly, as it has been recently, and we're angry at Punch for doing it.
These new stands of growth — if managed as true forest rather than as a single-species, single-aged crops — would contain a mixture of mature and transitional-growth trees.
I immediately had a dim sum mentor; a woman who looked as if she managed the place made sure that I knew where everything was and made unsolicited but welcome suggestions in halting English.
When I got far enough and looked behind me the swan had vanished, as if it managed to survive, proving once again that they're probably magical creatures that survive on hate and Jew blood.
On those days, when my husband hugs me for comfort and I felt some of the tension leave my body, I feel that my stomach muscles are sore, as if I managed to do a hundred sit-ups during the day.
At the time, it looked as if as film-makers were managing to break down the walls of naturalism, just as Jarman had exploded the walls of Loudon in The Devils.
