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"I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results had not been good, he lost a game on December 22 or 23. On Christmas Day, the telephone rang and he was sacked in the middle of our lunch."
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"Anyway, how can you sack anyone who still hasn't got a contract. I'll be there for the game and I'll stand behind the dugout giving instructions to the players from there. They will respond to me more than the next manager."
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"I know as a manager you have to abide by the chairman's decisions. But his decisions were this team, that team, this player, that player. The chairman is a control freak."
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"The purpose of people-centric Change Management is to build an ongoing change capability."
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"Successful people carefully manage their energy and associations, they are gatekeepers."
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"If organizations measure the input to the strategy implementation, but not the output, it's a recipe for disaster."
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"Managing change is no longer a one-time initiative, and change management turns to be a strategical ongoing capability in today's digital organizations."
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"We need to learn to protect our time."
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"The challenge is having a harmonized vision about management philosophy, capability, structure, and maturity in a digital organization."
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"You cannot do everything by yourself, you need to learn how to delegate responsibility and trust people that everything will be done on time and with highest quality."
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"Organizational culture is just like the "Operation System of the organization, you need reboot periodically to keep it running smoothly."
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"The Porto players were with me for two and a half years, they believed in me, in my methods, in the way we do it. The next day I go and a manager arrives who works completely differently."
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"I don't say we are a defensive team. I say we are a strong team in defensive terms, but at the same time lacking sufficient fluidity in attack because that will take time to come."
Time

"The only thing I would like is to have more control of the game in terms of possession."
Control

"Facing the press is not easy, but because you have to go, you have to try to take a lot of positive things for yourself from these face-to-face meetings."
Positive

"I followed an Italian manager and it cannot be easy when you follow a manager who thinks very differently."
Management

"But I think it's more normal for my team to have no success than it is to win two consecutive European cups."
Success

"Look at the way teams play against Arsenal. They don't believe they can win. They don't believe."
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"When I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind the game has already started."
Mind

"The way I use to develop an aerobic condition is three against three, man to man, in a square 20 metres by 20."
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"When I face the media, maybe I don't feel it now, here with you, because it's a different sort of interview, but when I face the media before or after the game, I feel it as part of the game."
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