The phrase 'skillful manager' is correct and may be used in written English
You could use it to describe someone who is well-qualified and experienced in managing people or projects. For example, "He was a skillful manager, and was able to meet the company's targets within the allotted budget."
Then factor the fees back in to decide if a more skillful manager is worth the cost (though oftentimes the guy with skill is cheaper).
Dr. Shao Lei, at the Huashan Hospital, was nationally renowned as a skillful manager of this mysterious force.
Yudof is by many accounts a skillful manager and a good listener, but his vision of the university falls something short of Churchillian.
And it has hired new staff, including an executive director, Alex Matthiessen, who is widely hailed as a skillful manager and negotiator.
There are many levels of self-delusion here: that Madoff was basically a good man and a skillful manager who simply made a mistake; that he was a victim of forces outside his control; that he was somehow obligated to continue his fraud, year after year, drawing ever more investors into what he knew was a death spiral.
As always, Gopnik shows himself to be a skillful manager of complex concepts and nuanced reflection, but, like others who seek to understand the dharma, he would do well to take the advice of Zen teachers past and present: sit down and shut up.
We should see the most skillful managers staying at the top of their class year after year.
Doerr uses the Kleiner network tirelessly to scout the industry's most skillful managers and technical wizards.
Third, they are critical thinkers, skillful managers, and excellent leaders (King and Roberts 1992).
"But they do assume that the housewife will be a careful shopper, a skillful cook, and a good manager who will prepare all the family's meals at home".
In the 12 years that he led the Diocese of Bridgeport, Conn., he earned a reputation as a skillful corporate manager and aggressive fund-raiser.
