I would love to be a general manager just for the challenge.
It was too short: I’ve said many times that I would have done things differently had I known I’d only have 10 months because United are one of the few clubs in football who could have given a manager more time, like Bill Kenwright did with me at Everton.
I’ve made a lot of progress. As a man, mentally, but also physically. And tactically, too. That’s a given with a manager like Antonio Conte. He likes you to work, work, work. Every day.
The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.
My concern as a citizen and as a money manager is, Oh my God, at what point does a ‘whoa’ moment happen to these people who own $30 trillion fixed income instruments?
Arsene Wenger is just an unbelievable manager. I think he’s a tremendous person, and he is just as good as there is. You can’t judge a manager on one game or on one stretch of games. You judge him over time.
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was not engaged in subversive work; she was an apolitical project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of the Reuters news agency.
At City, when I was playing, I knew that at some point, the substitution board would go up, and I was going to come off because the manager didn’t have trust in me. Then, you start to lose your confidence on the pitch.
One of the dumber things my manager said was, Stick to the melody. But I can’t.
There’s nothing wrong with pitch counts. But not when it’s spit out by a computer, and the computer does not look at an individual’s mechanics. And you can’t look at his genes. It should come from the individual and the pitching coach and the manager.
I’m from Italy, the home of Vivaldi, Rossini, Puccini. When I stopped playing and became a manager, football became like a beautiful piece of music to me – and the players, an orchestra.
The manager and the fitness staff condition every training session. They plan it out week by week on what players need. If players need a rest, they will do that; if players need to work hard, they will do that as well.
As a portfolio manager, when do you start advising to your clients that they have some cryptocurrency exposure? When will there be an index fund, a mutual fund of cryptocurrencies? It will happen.
Conte is the manager who most ‘bet’ on me without even ever having had me in his team. I feel indebted to him because he’s the coach that most trusted in me, most wanted me.
It’s difficult to be both a good player and a good manager.
You don’t have to be popular with the players to be a good manager or coach.
There’s got to be a role for an experienced football person helping the manager; not being a threat to the manager, but helping and sorting out a lot of the hassle he has, you know? Letting him concentrate on managing the football side.
My wife and daughters work. My campaign manager in 2005 was a working mother. I appointed 5 women to my senior staff as Attorney General.
I’ve had my down times, as every manager does, but I bounce back pretty quickly.
The reason I became a manager was to have full control over training. If you are a coach, you are bound by what the manager wants you to coach. The other reason is that I just like the company of football people.
I went and worked at a TV station in Stillwater. I was actually account manager for commercial accounts, selling ad space and everything.
I don’t have interns. I don’t have a manager. I don’t have assistants. I don’t have a secretary. I can’t figure out Outlook Express. I’m the worst person in the world answering e-mails, and my phone is probably the oldest, most battered phone you can find. So I just talk to people.
I think I’m most proud of the fact that I have figured out how to exist as both a creative person and artist, and a businesswoman and manager. Because those two things do not go together.
I had other interesting offers, but for me, it had to be a top club. When you look at Arsenal, with a fantastic manager, good environment, and never any bad press surrounding the club, they are playing attractive football and have a great stadium with great fans.
As a manager, you are important sometimes, and you make mistakes, but the most important people are your staff and your players. Never call me ‘the special one!’
As a writer, I am not goddess of the universes I create. I am at most a stage manager of the plentiful gifts which tumble out of the horn of plenty, which is to say there is a source so sweet and forgiving and generous that I pray every day to let that source be my guide.
I did not want to be the gay artist, and I talked to my manager all the time, like, I don’t want to lead with that. I didn’t want people to look at me like that’s all I am.
I knew if I wanted to be a general manager, I was going to have to leave to work for another organization.
My cousin knew a manager in the model agency, He offered me a shoot for a Korean brand called Kai-aakmann, and it was a good pay. I was working at a shop selling surfing items in Busan, but I quit the job and came to Seoul for a better future.
I could try to incorporate or reflect in my models what it is that an employee, manager, or entrepreneur does: to recognize that most are engaged in their work, form expectations and evolve beliefs, solve problems, and have ideas. Trying to put these people into economic models became my project.
I am an animator. I feel like I’m the manager of a animation cinema factory. I am not an executive. I’m rather like a foreman, like the boss of a team of craftsmen. That is the spirit of how I work.
When you’re at the lower levels in the organization, you need to win and be right. But as you move up, you need to let other people win and be right, and become a manager and delegate responsibility.
My first day as a manager was at Digital Equipment in Atlanta. I was a sales rep. I was promoted from among my peers, so one day I was a peer, and the next day I was their boss.
Jay-Z ain’t a manager; he owns a management company. He been through this; he been through the game for a long time, so he knows tactics in taking artists in certain directions we need to go in.
I just talked to a young lady, a freshman at Santa Barbara. She’s taking a course, and Moneyball’s one of the required readings. This young lady could dream of one day becoming a general manager.
Anger clearly has its proper place at work, which is neither wholly absent nor ever present. The manager who is an emotional blank is just as hard to work for as the volcanic boss, and both can do great harm by setting an unhelpful example for what kind of emotional expression is expected and accepted.
I used to make my manager Jamie not tell me where I was going to be the next day, because I was so afraid of flying and of anything. But now I love flying, I love working hard, I love being around the world.
My first manager was this lady named Booh Schut. She actually worked with me on my auditions.
My first manager chose the name Engelbert Humperdinck for me. My real name is Arnold George Dorsey. It didn’t really quite hit the entertainment industry the way it should have. But when my manager chose the name Engelbert Humperdinck, I had a hit record immediately, which was called ‘Release Me.’
I work hard to improve myself as a person – as a father, as a husband, as a manager. I’m always on that mission.
A subset of CEOs is that of entrepreneurs. And the classical definition of an entrepreneur is an individual who pursues opportunity without regard to the resources currently controlled. That sounds like a very different person than one might expect an analytical investment manager to be.
The best Chipotle restaurant managers get the title ‘restaurateur’ and a $10,000 bonus for each person they hire who starts as crew and goes on to become a manager.
We think the most important criteria for selecting an investment firm are the manager, team, and track record.
Often, you’re not quite sure what people have seen you in, but the script lands in your inbox. That was the case with ‘The Night Manager.’
Even though my dad was a manager in the minor leagues, I still traveled around with him and saw it from the field out. Now, as an owner, you’re kind of looking from the whole baseball activity from outside in, from a fan’s perspective.
What football means to an Italian coach is tactics, trying to control the game by following the ideas and systems of the manager.
He who brings a style to a club that can’t carry it out, he is not a good manager, because he is attacking the club that hires him.
He was a manager, one of the singers, I guess talent coordinator for the local talent in Harlem. His name was Lover Patterson. He was living right across the street from where my dad had his restaurant. I guess he saw a lot of kids come in, a lot of my buddies.
I understand there are so many managers who would love to be manager of Manchester United, and I am one of them.
I’m a centre forward, and that is my preferred position. But I’ll play on the wing or in midfield, wherever the manager wants me to play.
Basically, a manager’s job is to make other people more productive. What’s one really good way to do that? Do the work that is getting in their way. Which means find out what kind of important work your developers dislike the most, and do it for them.
