Management vs Generalship - What's the difference?
management | generalship | Synonyms |
(uncountable, management) Administration; the process or practice of managing.
(management) The executives of an organisation, especially senior executives.
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(uncountable) Judicious use of means to accomplish an end.
The position or office of a general.
The term of office of a military general.
:George Washington's generalship was marked by both amazing victories and stunning blunders, neither of which would have happened to someone with more formal officer training.
The skills or performance of a good general; military leadership, strategy.
*1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 277:
*:At the same time, awed by the brilliant and daring generalship which had enabled the Russian to capture their city with so small a force, the elders gave him the honorific title of ‘Lion of Tashkent’.
*2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 136:
*:Virtually the whole of the region fell to Saxe's ingenious generalship .
By extension, leadership, good management.
:Under my generalship my fine troop of brats picked up every scrap of litter in that lot.
