Manuel Pellegrini Quotes

I think when you have strong leadership at the coaching level and you empower the coach and the coaching staff, you have a lot more stability.

It is important for the manager to find the right solution for your team.

I think different teams have different challenges as you go through.

Every team has problems. Championship teams have problems and whatnot.

I've learned so much whether it was, I played a lot of team sports, so being part of a team, learning how to be a leader on different teams, and how to deal with the ebb and flow of different games.

As a manager, you manage a team and there are good periods where there are good feelings in the group.

I think it's a requirement that the general manager and the coach are communicating with each other on a regular basis, and it's unacceptable if they're not.

Effective leaders do not fear passion. They welcome it. But from time to time passionate discussions digress into personal attacks, and real people get really hurt. In my view, leaders must head that off before it happens.

The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.

I think the job of leadership is to expand what can be talked about and to get consensus on the nature of the problem, and that is most of the job. Because once you do that, once you have diagnosis, treatment options are obvious.

You know, I think when you coach or you manage, you make decisions, and there's some that are really, really tough.

A CEO needs to build their own team.

I need to build my team around my weaknesses.

I think management is about just that - managing people via man-to-man skills.

Something goes wrong, I yell at them -'Fix it'- whether it's their fault or not. You can only really yell at the players you trust.

Basically, a manager is a father figure to 20 or 25 blokes. It's about trying to get the best out of them and creating team spirit.

But the best teams I've encountered have one important thing in common: their team structure and processes cover a full range of distinct competencies necessary for success.

Showing leadership doesn't mean every employee will run the organization; that would lead to chaos. Businesses do need someone to set the vision and then lead the team to it.

Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players.

I fell in love with the topic of leadership. For three decades, that has been a major focus of my hands-on work: listening to and working with leaders, their teams and their organizations.

When you're President you have to make a lot of tough decisions. You have to keep lining them up and making them.

The key to good management is keeping the guys on your team who hate your guts away from the guys who haven't made up their minds.

You have to build a team, but someone's got to lead, and someone's got to be unpopular at times.

I think there are always growing pains with teams.

Man-management is my biggest asset, to help the players enjoy themselves and be better than they already are.