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I'm a 53 year old senior manager in Local Government. My interests include current affairs, travel, walking, reading, art & culture and sport. The views expressed in this blog are entirely my own and do not represent the views of anyone else or of any organisation.

Wednesday 25 March 2009

Cloughie - Football Genius

I'm watching the excellent ITV documentary on Brian Clough, possibly the most charismatic manager ever to grace English football and one of my childhood football heroes. He provided us with a catalogue of fantastic quotes and one of my favourites is from when he was asked about what he would do if one of his players came to him and said that he had a better idea than Clough about how things should be done. From memory, Clough's response was something like -

"Good, well I'd invite the player into my office, I'd ask him how he thought things should be done, we'd talk about it for 20 minutes and then we'd decide I was right all along!".

Wouldn't it be great (if unwise) to say something like that in a job interview when asked about your management style!?

UPDATE - I don't think much of ITV, but I must say this was a very fine programme - truly excellent...

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