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I think it's natural for any manager to want to grow his business. The question is at what rate, and in what direction, and in what format?
It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
We mislead ourselves when we pretend we can make someone into an effective manager by putting them through a few courses in business school.
A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.
Donald calls me and asks me what I think. Very often I will answer him, but Donald Trump is his own adviser. He is his own campaign manager.
I've had to step up when I was Al Gore's campaign manager. I had to make significant changes as we moved from Washington, D.C. to Tennessee.
You can't make a manager have a coach he doesn't want. I can't make the head of the accounting department work with someone he doesn't want.
You have to believe in your dreams every day, work hard in training, and - above all - listen to the advice of the manager and your parents.
When a club legend becomes your manager, he automatically gets the attention of the players, purely because he had been there and done that.
As players, whenever the manager gets the sack, you have to look in the mirror and say it's not always the manager. It's down to the players.
I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager.
I find being a manager really challenging. For instance, I don't enjoy some of the administrative tasks that go along with hiring and firing.
For every manager, it is important to explain your ideas. It's very important the club understand those ideas and are ready to work together.
Trust is a big word for a manager. You expect certain standards and attitudes and they know if they lower those standards, I'll jump on them.
I just didn't want to walk away from football without knowing what it meant to be a manager, or even wondering what it was like to be sacked.
How could I not be the underdog, starting at 35 and a half and going from a manager and a fourth-string color commentator to being a wrestler?
What's more important than who's going to be the first black manager is who's going to be the first black sports editor of the New York Times.
Oh, there's all these rumors that I'm a lesbian. I have a boyfriend now, Brandon Blackstock; my manager Narvel's son, Reba McEntire's stepson.
I've been a software engineer, a novelist, a journalist, and a manager - and managing developers is easily the trickiest thing I've ever done.
In the same way that I had to follow an Italian manager here, I can imagine that it was not easy for an Italian manager to follow me at Porto.
My career has been wacky and not at all normal. I've never had a manager, nobody gets jobs for me. I wind up working with artists that I meet.
Most of the offers I get from Hollywood are for teen comedies. My manager thinks I'm crazy for turning down all that money, but I'm very picky.
Much of the time, as an actor, you sit around waiting. Most of your life and career, you're waiting for your agent or your manager to call you.
My first job in the film business was working as a production assistant, and then a production manager on a documentary about Townes Van Zandt.
I am a singer first and foremost. I was lucky enough to have a manager, when I was 15, who knew the heads of a lot of record labels at the time.
I've been in just about every situation as a player and coach and manager. I've been in the playoffs, World Series, and I know how to get there.
If I can be a role model, or if I can maybe make another manager play a young player coming through rather than buy a player, that's incredible.
You can't ring up another manager and say, 'Who do you think I should pick this week?' But you take the good and bad from people as you go along.
You can go to Old Trafford as Liverpool manager and get a draw, and it's not a bad result. At Celtic, there's an expectancy to win home and away.
When I see something that needs to be corrected, I may talk to a store manager. I don't want to demoralize people when it's beyond their control.
Arsene Wenger is an ambitious manager, and he knows deep in his heart that he needs five world-class players to compete among the best in Europe.
Does the manager have absolute power in England? No, it depends on a budget and on the executive director that negotiates the signings of players.
I think the first time I finished a season with the same manager who started it was Martin O'Neill at Villa, probably five seasons into my career.
My mom is my manager and handles day-to-day business to keep the DeGarmo machine up and running! She's a huge, huge part of my career and my life.
I understand that it's always difficult for a national team to have a foreign manager. It's a nationalistic question that also flows into football.
I've put in 63 years now in the big leagues as a player, coach, manager. And now just being around these young guys, it keeps you going pretty good.
Jose Mourinho has experience of Premier League football and winning the title. He's a European Cup-winning manager so he knows what it is all about.
I don't think a manager should be judged by whether he wins the pennant, but by whether he gets the most out of the twenty-five men he's been given.
The true genius of a great manager is his or her ability to individualize. A great manager is one who understands how to trip each person's trigger.
Your job as a baseball player is to come to the park ready to play every day, and the manager, it's his job to make those decisions about who plays.
If you ask a million players who they would want as manager, they will come back with a top three list of Mourinho, Pep Guardiola, or Diego Simeone.
I randomly went to a casting session in my hometown in North Carolina, and the casting director introduced me to my manager. I really lucked into it!
When I was in Italy, I liked to say, no, that the manager, the coach, is like a tailor. A tailor who must build a dress, the best dress for the team.
If I had been at any other club but United, then I think I would have gone to the manager and asked to leave. But I want to stay here and win things.
I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes.
I was always the 'boring' type. I was into the stats and spending hours and hours and hours studying them. I was always more a manager than a player.
People love to play expectations games, and that is always bad for collaboration internal to a team, with your manager, or externally with customers.
Life is the same. It would be the same thing if I were still working at Starbucks, having to deal with a manager, and a shift manager. This is a job.
I recommend doing some sort of acting class, something that can eventually get you in front of an agent or a manager, and practice is very important.
Being a football manager is no fun at all. You have to put up with all the hassle. It is not surprising that so many turn grey or have heart attacks.