"A very good book." Sven-Goran Eriksson "This book makes a convincing case that there are good lessons to be learned from the dugout." Management Today " We're not one to gossip, but which manager was spotted in a Monte Carlopool this week ploughing through The 90-Minute Manager only weeks after getting his club relegated? And why, exactly, was he there with Fabien Barthez and international playboy Dave "Barry" Bassett?" The Guardian's Fiver email Football is the setting for one of the purest forms of management - and the most transparent. In an age when club football is more of a business than ever before, suddenly it seems business is getting more and more like football: when talent is at a premium, the ability to attract and retain the very best people - and get the most out of them individually and collectively - is of paramount importance. What better time to learn the lessons from the very best - and worst - of the ultimate man management game. In this book, Brady and Bolchover take each of the key areas of management today, and see what we can learn from football league managers of all levels, their style and methodology. From Shankley to Wenger, from Clough to Mourinho, through Keegan, Venables, Fergusonand O'Neill, strengths and weaknesses are examined to answer classic modern management questions, such as: - what are the best strategies for dealing with brilliant but erratic people? - does the best manger have to be both a great strategist and an inspirational motivator? - what will make top talent want to work for you? - what makes a great manager on a shoestring? - what are the advantages of home grown versus imported talent? - how important is the 'right-hand' man and what qualities make the very best pairing? - should a team ever be built around a single outstanding individual? Now in its 3rd edition, The 90 Minute Manager is the ultimate read for pleasure, read for work book and publishes in the midst of the football fever of World Cup 2006.

The 90-Minute Manager: Lessons from the Sharp End of Management (3rd Edition)

Business & Money

BRADY, CHRIS

Bolchover, David

Management & Leadership

Pearson Education Canada

Who deserves what they earn? Seldom has this question been more relevant than now, as senior executives grab outrageous salaries while the companies they manage go bankrupt, and British parliamentarians fiddle their expenses. From jargon-spouting consultants to the financial "whiz kids" undertaking risky deals, oversized pay packets are justified on the flimsiest of grounds - that the recipients possess extraordinary talent without which no company or organisation could prosper. But the evidence suggests otherwise. This book explodes the myth of "talent", and shows how the term has been deliberately misused and abused. Pay Check aims to win capitalism back for those who actually take the risks, and expose those who merely snatch the rewards. "This is a thoughtful, persuasive and well-written book. It is a timely and powerful contribution to the debate about the corrosive effects of the banking bonus culture. I commend Mr Bolchover's work to anyone who cares about the future of capitalism." - Luke Johnson, Financial Times columnist and Entrepreneur. "There is, in my view, no better writer on the modern workplace than David Bolchover. With this book he has done it again. He has asked one of the questions that really matter." - Daniel Finkelstein, The Times. "Pay Check is a bold and impassioned book, rich in wry humour, thoughtfully argued throughout...highly persuasive...the starting-point for a worthy and necessary discussion about the nature of "talent"." --The Economist"The answer and the solution (to excessive pay) lie in an excellent book by the business writer David Bolchover called Pay Check." Johann Hari, GQ Magazine / The Huffington Post "[Bolchover's] criticisms of the way top pay is handled crisply and with good use of data. Many of the hand grenades he throws hit their targets. He is withering about the clichéd term "talent", which is used to justify excessive pay." Financial Times / Los Angeles Times "a great little book" --Merryn Somerset Webb, Editor, MoneyWeek "A must read for anyone interested in the topic." --Lynda Gratton, Professor of Management Practice, London Business School

Pay Check: Are Top Earners Really Worth It?

Business Culture

Coptic

Even amid the enduring financial crisis, sky-high salaries for top executives and bankers persist, further inflaming public anger. But nothing will change, argues David Bolchover, until we confront the root cause - a self-serving "talent myth" that justifies high pay on the ground that the recipients possess extraordinary abilities without which no company could hope to prosper. These claims are not only unfounded; they are also an abuse of free-market capitalism. Pay Check aims to win the system back for those who actually take the risks, and expose those who merely snatch the rewards.

Pay Check: Are Top Earners Really Worth It? (Updated Edition)

"Packed with insight and interesting debate, The Greatest Comeback is both deeply poignant and extremely topical. David Bolchover has expertly woven one huge, tragic strand of twentieth-century history together with a great footballing story." ―Henry Winter, Chief Football Writer, The Times
Béla Guttmann was the first of a breed of globetrotting superstar football coaches, achieving his greatest successes before Pep Guardiola or José Mourinho were even born.
He was also a Holocaust survivor. In 1944, much of Europe had wanted Guttmann dead. He hid for months in an attic near Budapest as thousands of fellow Jews in the neighbourhood were dragged off to be murdered. Later, he escaped from a slave labour camp before a planned deportation and almost certain death. His father, sister, and extended family were murdered.
But by 1961, as coach of Benfica, he had lifted Europe's greatest sporting prize―the European Cup, a feat he repeated the following year. From the death pits of Europe to champion of Europe in little more than sixteen years, Guttmann performed the greatest comeback in football history.
An extraordinary and compelling account of the life of football coach Béla Guttmann.
David Bolchover is an author and commentator. He has published three previous books, including the bestselling 90-Minute Manager (Pearson Education, 2002), which explored the various management styles of the great football coaches. He has written for a number of leading newspapers, such as The Times, The Telegraph, and the Financial Times, and has frequently appeared on the BBC, Sky, and other broadcast outlets.

The Greatest Comeback: From Genocide to Football Glory: the Story of Bela Guttmann

Biographies & Memoirs

Biteback Publishing

Before Pep Guardiola and before José Mourinho, there was Béla Guttmann: the first superstar football coach. Remarkably, Guttmann was also a Holocaust survivor. Having narrowly dodged death by hiding for months in an attic near Budapest as thousands of fellow Jews in the neighbourhood were dragged off to be murdered, Guttmann later escaped from a slave labour camp. His father, sister and wider family were murdered by the Nazis. But by 1961, as coach of Benfica, he had lifted one of football’s greatest prizes: the European Cup – a feat he repeated the following year. Rising from the death pits of Europe to become its champion in just over sixteen years, Guttmann performed the single greatest comeback in football history.

Switch on the business news and you will probably be bombarded with yet more workplace experts telling you that everyone nowadays is grossly overworked, madly juggling their work-life balance until they finally keel over and die from the sheer stress of it all. We all know that's right, don't we? 
The real truth is that there are millions upon millions of people who are actively disengaged from their jobs, who spend months and years sitting in offices doing next to nothing, lost in the cracks of laughably inefficient and abysmally managed large organisations, their talents wasted and long forgotten. The Living Dead unmasks the myth of the workplace for the first time. It tells the truth. Not cloaked in humour, as in Dilbert and The Office, but in plain black and white. The Living Dead will captivate anyone anywhere in the world who has ever worked in a large office environment, or those who have a genuine desire to make people's working lives more productive and enjoyable. Here are some astonishing statistics about office life you probably never knew: <ul>
<li>40 per cent of all casual drugs users in the US (people who use drugs just once a month) still choose to do it at work. 19.6 per cent of people who take drugs at work do so at their workstation.</li> <li>One in three mid-week visitors to the theme park Alton Towers has taken the day off work on a dishonest pretext.</li> <li>One in five US workers has had sex with a co-worker during work hours. Full sex, that is. 44 per cent of men and 35 per cent of women have had at least some sexual contact at work.</li> <li>One third of UK young professionals are hungover at least twice a week on working days. Two thirds admitted to having called in sick due to alcohol at least once in the previous month.</li> <li>70 per cent of Internet porn sites are accessed during the 9 to 5 working day.</li> <li>More than half of the UK's 14.5 million pet owners say they would need between two and five days off work to grieve for a dead pet, while 10 per cent said they would need as much as two weeks.</li> <li>Monday (23 per cent) and Friday (25 per cent) are the days most commonly taken off sick by UK employees. Wednesday is the most rarely taken (8 per cent).</li> <li>UK doctors receive 9 million 'suspicious' or 'questionable' requests each year for sick notes.</li> </ul> David Bolchover writes frequently on business and management issues for The Times and The Sunday Times as well as a number of other national newspapers and specialist publications. His first book, The 90-Minute Manager, outlines the lessons which business managers can learn from football managers. Previously, he was employed for several years in a large office. But now he wants to do something with his life.

The Living Dead: Switched Off, Zoned Out - The Shocking Truth About Office Life

Capstone

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The 90-Minute Manager: Lessons from the Sharp End of Management (3rd Edition)

Pay Check: Are Top Earners Really Worth It?

Pay Check: Are Top Earners Really Worth It? (Updated Edition)

The Greatest Comeback: From Genocide to Football Glory: the Story of Bela Guttmann

The Greatest Comeback: From Genocide to Football Glory: the Story of Bela Guttmann

The Living Dead: Switched Off, Zoned Out - The Shocking Truth About Office Life