The manager - Mike Carson

From the post room to the board room, everyone thinks they can be the
manager. But how do you manage outrageous talent? What do you do to
inspire loyalty from your players? How do you turn around a team in
crisis? What's the best way to build long-term success? How can you lead
calmly under pressure? The issues are the same whether you're managing a
Premier League football team or a FTSE 100 company.
Here, for
the first time, some 30 of the biggest names in football management
reveal just what it takes. With their every decision, remark, skill, and
success or failure under constant scrutiny from the media and the fans,
these managers need to be the most adroit of leaders. In The Manager
they explain their methods, give examples of lessons they've learned
along the way, and describe the decisions they make and the leadership
they provide.
Each chapter tackles a key leadership issue for
managers in any walk of life and, in their own words, shows how the
experts deal with the challenges they face in an abnormally
high-pressure environment. Offering valuable lessons for business
leaders and fascinating behind-the-scenes insights for football fans,
The Manager is an honest, accessible and unprecedented look at the
day-to-day work of these high-profile characters and the world of
top-level football management.Contents: A Piece of the Action
(Roy Hodgson); The Art of One-on-One (Carlo Ancelotti); Behind the
Scenes (Arsne Wenger); Building High-performing Teams (Sam Allardyce);
The Field of Play (Roberto Mancini); Handling Outrageous Talent (Jos
Mourinho); Pursuing a Career Under Pressure (Brendan Rodgers); Seeing
the Bigger Picture (Harry Redknapp); Creating Sustained Success (Sir
Alex Ferguson); Crisis Response and Turnaround (Walter Smith); Triumph
and Despair (Mick McCarthy).Also featuring: Gerard Houllier, Tony
Pulis, Martin O'Neill, Neil Warnock, Howard Wilkinson, Kevin Keegan,
Dario Gradi, Andre Villas-Boas, David Moyes, Alex McLeish, Hope Powell,
Martin Jol, Glenn Hoddle, Chris Hughton, David Platt, Paul Ince, and
George Graham.