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Mission Mastery: The DMA Solution Set

In: Mission Mastery

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  • Brian Dive

    (Fairlawn)

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If the search for an optimum number of management levels is a ‘futile search for a holy grail’, then one response might be to think ‘any old structure will do’. But if it is not a ‘futile search’, if there is a way of establishing the ‘optimum number of management levels’ for a particular organization, and if having the wrong number of management levels has harmful consequences, then the belief that the search is ‘futile’, encouraging the acceptance of bad structures, can do enormous harm. In this chapter I aim to answer three fundamental questions to prove the search for an “optimum number of management levels” is not only possible but essential. What is the DMA Solution Set (DMASS)? Where did it come from? How can it be applied? I wish to show it is a set of universal, flexible principles that can be applied to any employment organization that exists for a purpose. (A partnership is not an employment organization in this context.) It is a real solution to a real business challenge. In short it is not a futile search for a holy grail.

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  • Brian Dive, 2016. "Mission Mastery: The DMA Solution Set," Management for Professionals, in: Mission Mastery, edition 1, chapter 8, pages 215-247, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:mgmchp:978-3-319-25223-0_8
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-25223-0_8
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