A Guarantee of Success?

Management Excel does not and can not guarantee management success. As excited as we may be about the progress being made by some Management Excel graduates, the reality is, "Sometimes the Dragon Wins!" (Note figure.) Both factors external to the firm uncontrollable by managers and internal factors not perfectly controllable frustrate a manager's use of her or his management skills. Nevertheless, Management Excel remains firmly grounded on the teaching of five functions of management with the conviction that these functions define well what it is a manager must do to maximize the chances of success