To help busy managers deal with the seemingly "unmanageables," Jezra Kaye and I wrote Managing the Unmanageable: How to Motivate Even the Most Unruly Employee.
For the people responsible for trying to manage the unmanageable river, each success is replaced by new worries.
The challenge for President Trump's attorneys has become, at its core, managing the unmanageable — their client.
So New Orleanians, by and large, aren't tortured by the frenzy to achieve, acquire, and manage the unmanageable future.
Alexander Stevenson, author of The Public Sector: managing the unmanageable, reckons that managing in public services makes you skilled in the art of persuasion, dealing with complex decisions and, by no means least, managing crises.
– Alexander Stevenson, author of The Public Sector: Managing the Unmanageable A great example of joining up data: "During recent bad weather a local authority blended data about services, such as road gritting rotas, with services for people at risk, such as 'meals on wheels'.
For now, though, all we can do is wait, and check back in five years down the line to see if they managed the seemingly unmanageable. .
We need to start taking steps, as our scientists urge, "to manage the unavoidable and avoid the unmanageable".
In 2013, we hope our practical approach will pay homage to the aptly titled 2007 United Nations Foundation report by helping, "manage the unavoidable and avoid the unmanageable".
A useful analogy for this moment comes from climate science, where a popular motto says: Given how much climate change is already baked into our future, the best we can do now is manage the unavoidable and avoid the unmanageable.
Success in the digital era will require responsive, engaged leadership and collaborative action through public-private partnerships if we are to effectively manage the unavoidable and avoid the unmanageable.
