"A lot of thinking in management used to be that managers should remove emotion from the equation, like dumping the fluid from a hydraulic system," Leary said.
Visitor management used to be ruled by the housing associations.
Patten says that senior management used to account for 3% of staff.
Anger management used to be a thing; now, everyone has anxiety issues.
Ever since, computers have been essential tools of management, used to run and monitor manufacturing, procurement, accounting and marketing.
"Computer security and systems management used to be separate, but that is less and less the case," said Paul Stamp, an analyst at Forrester Research.
Banking and asset management used to be perceived as fairly dull jobs, which did not attract a significant wage premium.
Now don't expect any old-timers to admit this, but corporate responsibility management used to be a bit of a doddle.
One objection, filed by a former Dewey partner, Michael L. Fitzgerald, highlighted the outsize compensation packages that Dewey's management used to poach star lawyers from other firms.
The employee noted that coverage of Saudi Arabia was always politically motivated at Al Jazeera — in the past, top management used to sometimes force-feed the reluctant news staff negative material about Saudi Arabia, apparently to placate the Qatari leadership.
