Managers have been charged to draw lines and obey them, if they plan to succeed in their positions.
This was part of the message captured from Prof. Seth Accra-Jaja’s 37th inaugural lecture titled, “Breaking the Management Coconut,” last Wednesday at the Rivers State University of Science and Technology campus in Port Harcourt.
He was of the view that successful managers are dogged men who do not shift grounds unnecessarily.
Accra-Jaja, said those managers who draw lines but do not maintain such are not good industry drivers.
The management professor, was specific about African managers, saying they disobey even their drawn lines.
Another way for a manager to succeed, he said, was to set standards in line with societal values.
He explained that, any standard that was set below the societal value by any manager may not see the light of the day.
Accordingly, the acting Vice Chancellor of the University, Prof Blessing C. Didia, has urged all managers as well as lecturers to make the lecture topic their companion.
Describing the lecturer as an erudite scholar, he said the potency to the lecture was capable of transforming a bad manager to the best.
Meanwhile, he has urged all managers to use their positions as change agents in order to match Governor Wike’s plans for the state.