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"I followed an Italian manager and it cannot be easy when you follow a manager who thinks very differently."
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"Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers."
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Personal Development
"I like to make everything my friends are involved in a little better. I should have just become a manager."
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Personal Development
"For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio."
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Personal Development
"If something that needs to be done that we don't feel confronting, we do it through the manager."
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Personal Development
"I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried."
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Personal Development
"Our entire team is focused on managing this company for value - fixing or eliminating those operations that lessen value and expanding or adding those that enhance value."
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Personal Development
"I will not be in the position of having management dictated to by labor."
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Personal Development
"A manager has his cards dealt to him and he must play them."
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Personal Development
"Great leaders understand the importance of assigning the right people to the right positions. If you put the wrong person in the wrong place, no matter how talented or earnest they are, they will never reach the peak of their potential. Their strengths will be underutilized and they may never measure up to your expectations. Reassign to get the best out of others and the situation."
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Personal Development
"It goes without saying that when you're the manager of a Premiership club, you go eight miles down the road and get beaten by a team two divisions below you, it's disappointing."
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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."
Management
"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
"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
"The only thing I would like is to have more control of the game in terms of possession."
Control
"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."
Media
"When I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind the game has already started."
Mind
"The team is completely close. Anything you say outside, there is no chance it will go inside. So the team is really strong and compact. We know what we want and how to achieve it on the pitch."
Chance
"You have to win and especially, as I have, you have to win a trophy for the first time."
Time
"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."
Management
"I followed an Italian manager and it cannot be easy when you follow a manager who thinks very differently."
Management
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