“Some people have suggested that understanding human behavior is the single most important requirement for managerial success.”

Understanding human behavior, while one of the vital components of successfully managing an organization, is not the single most important requirement for managerial success. While it leads to better relationships, better collaboration among staff and other people in the organization, building a team that breeds creativity and productivity, there are other variables within and outside the organization that every manager must be technically equip to deal with.

One of the most critical components of course is knowledge and technical skills in planning, organizing and controlling. Managers will be dealing with external factors like market trends, market competition, maintaining and expanding market niche, and even after sales and service issues. Simultaneously, managers will also deal with product designs and quality, cost efficiencies and other financial aspects, productivity, among other things, all requiring great deal of knowledge to make informed decisions. These complex decision areas are consequential to an organization’s success, becoming imperative on managers to possess profound understanding and knowledge of how the whole process works in order to effectively discharge their functions and manage the expectations of customers and achieve the organization’s objectives.

Another component and equally critical in managerial success is the ability of the manager to deal with his own self-esteem and put a self-check mechanism that will level off his satisfaction from the things he is suppose to be doing. This could mean self-motivation and courage. The ability to remain motivated drives a manager to keep those creativity and productivity juices flowing. Courage, on the other hand, is associated with many things. There is the