The Managementality Gap

While analyzing situations before making vital decisions has been practiced by realistic politicians since Machiavelli's time, business managers constantly make decisions with inadequate information and under the pressures of insufficient time. Too few managers have reached the point where they rigorously analyze alternate consequences before choosing one solution over another. A prime problem is the different mental attitude of those involved-today's top executives and the more recent management-oriented technical graduates. The potential contributions of management science to the business process are limited by the gap between the mentality of the practitioners of management science and currently successful managers. The challenge of developing certain interactions, mutual trust, and commitment is offered to both sides. Melding of the disparate talents of the charismatic intuitive leader, the management scientist, and the behavioral scientist is needed to help close the "managementality gap."