Jupp Heynckes Quotes
Not having to constantly remind everyone what's required is an important part of being successful.
Heynckes, Jupp. Press conference. FC Bayern Munich, Munich, 2013.
This quotation could be used by any leader, private or public, in almost any couWentry of the world to improve administration and leadership. It is the follow through for the top management that counts. Typically, even in the best of democracies, if anything goes wrong, the local managers and leaders are not only blamed for it and are held accountable if it was their mistake. but, even in America, executives blame the lower level bureaucrats even when it was caused by a mistake at the top. Congress is notorious for blaming appointees and bureaucrats if they every make a mistake, but castigating them in the most impolite and callous way. Often, it is for doing exactly what Congress officially and unofficially insisted that they do. Most management experts agree that government bureaucracies are too risk averse, but there are few rewards for bureaucratic success—that is taken by the President or the Cabinet or other heads of agencies, and much adverse if a mistake is ever made.
Josef "Jupp" Heynckes is a German retired professional footballer and manager. As a player, he spent the majority of his career as a striker for Borussia Mönchengladbach in its golden era of the 1960s and '70s, where he won many national championships and the DFB-Pokal, as well as the UEFA Cup. During this period the team played in its only European Cup final in 1977, losing to Liverpool. He is the fourth-highest goalscorer in the history of the Bundesliga, with 220 goals. He was a member of the West Germany national team that won the UEFA European Championship and the FIFA World Cup in the first half of the 1970s.
