How Not To Become A Jose Mourinho Style Manager At Work So after I wrote my article How Not To Become A David Moyes At Work I got a lot of cheeky comments from some particular Chelsea fans (no names mentioned you know yourselves) on Sunday April 27th that asked why I had not written a How Not To Become A Jose Mourinho at Work article. Now I am quite sure it had nothing to do with the fact that Chelsea had just beaten Liverpool at Anfield with a supposedly weakened team on Sunday. Or the fact that I am a Liverpool fan … lies … All soccer allegiances aside, I think there are some very interesting things to learn about Jose Mourinho this season that we can apply to work management…so here goes… #1 Recruit From Within Your Organization First Before Recruiting Outside One of the thing that baffles me about Managers is this addiction to recruit talent from outside when they already have talent in their very own company. And they do so at a much higher price, ignoring the talent within their organization … dismissing them as being too young, too inexperienced and not worthy of that big pay raise. It’s as if there is this magical and might I add false belief that outside organization hiring is better, that why you see time and time again that the people that earn the most are normally the ones that have changed jobs the most. But let’s ignore the money aspect for a second and look at the performance aspect. According to the independent.ie, on January 29, 2014, Chelsea had 39 goal attempts against West Ham out of that they scored a whooping zero times. This was the most goal attempts by any Premier League club in the last 10 years without scoring! But this is nothing new, Mourinho anticipated that Chelsea needed strikers at the start of the season, but what he did to address this was bizarre and confusing. He loaned out a proven striker by the name of Romelu Lukaku to Everton despite the fact that he had scored 17 times last season. To replace Lukaku, Mourinho went all the way to Russia to bring in Samuel Eto, who was playing in the less competitive Russian league. But that was just a fragment of the bigger picture …. the number of goals Chelsea players had scored this season was 60, while the number of goals the players they had loaned out to other teams had scored was an impressive ... continue reading here ofilispeaks/josemourinho/
Posted on: Sun, 04 May 2014 12:13:54 +0000
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