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Re: 4 Big Career Lessons Managers Can Learn From Mourinho And Chelsea Slump by demarc001: 2:57pm On Nov 16, 2015
Op take the lead in learning
Re: 4 Big Career Lessons Managers Can Learn From Mourinho And Chelsea Slump by jejemanito: 2:57pm On Nov 16, 2015
grin
Re: 4 Big Career Lessons Managers Can Learn From Mourinho And Chelsea Slump by free2ryhme: 2:57pm On Nov 16, 2015
This is where Arsene Wenger is much better than Murinho grin
Re: 4 Big Career Lessons Managers Can Learn From Mourinho And Chelsea Slump by Nobody: 2:59pm On Nov 16, 2015
grin chelsea MIGHT rise again... smiley
Re: 4 Big Career Lessons Managers Can Learn From Mourinho And Chelsea Slump by missKiffy(f): 3:00pm On Nov 16, 2015
I wont read this poo cos am a chelsea fan
Re: 4 Big Career Lessons Managers Can Learn From Mourinho And Chelsea Slump by MadCow1: 3:03pm On Nov 16, 2015
Career Lesson Five



When God wants to punish you, he first lifts you up before throwing you down.

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Re: 4 Big Career Lessons Managers Can Learn From Mourinho And Chelsea Slump by Chidizman(m): 3:04pm On Nov 16, 2015
Mtchewwww
I don't see anything interesting about this Useless Article.
Mr.man if only you are aware of Mourinho's records and achievements, You wouldn't come here to write Balderdash!
Re: 4 Big Career Lessons Managers Can Learn From Mourinho And Chelsea Slump by veraponpo(m): 3:05pm On Nov 16, 2015
Don4life:
Is is not supposed to be a guide to failing Managers like Mourinho. It is not even a piece of advice; it’s merely some rant by me, a Barcelona fan, who derives pleasure from seeing Chelsea and Mourinho play badly. For the Chelsea fans who have the privilege (or misfortune) of reading reading this piece; this is my opinion, not Jobberman’s.

With that said, let’s get down to it, shall we?



Career Lesson One

Story:
Chelsea FC have only won ONE Champions league trophy and I remember vividly that after that final, the only set of football fans who ‘had the right’ to speak at viewing centres were Chelsea fans. The rest of us dared not, even though at the time fans of FC Barcelona, Manchester United, FC Bayern, R.Madrid, Juventus and a few others had won (or celebrated winning) that same trophy multiple times. But Chelsea got it once and all hell was let loose; they just wouldn’t let us rest anymore.

Again, Mourinho is famous for repeatedly insisting that Arsene Wenger is a ‘specialist in failure’. The guy sees every pre and post match press conference as an opportunity to rant, complain and insult the person of Arsene; that’s more like his favorite pastime. Well, I bring good news; the dude called Mourinho now wins just one match in every month. Now, who’s the specialist in failure? I can’t laugh abeg.

Lesson:
Enjoy your success, but don’t rub it in the faces of other people.



Career Lesson Two

Story:
Chelsea sacked the only coach to have ever gotten them the Champions league trophy (what Mourinho would never be able to do for them) just a season after. The guy was dismissed like he never did anything good for them — the same idiotic way some bosses dismiss their secretaries/typists after a small typo.

Fast-forward to 2015, Mourinho in his characteristic autocratic manner ‘disciplined and dismissed’ the pretty, affable and reliable team physio, Eva Carneiro over some flimsy and almost irrelevant on-field situation. By the way, the Physio was clearly doing her job by attending to the injured Chelsea player– I think it was Hazard…or err Fabregas; can’t really remember, I hardly watch Chelsea matches — they bore me.

Need I remind everyone that that was the beginning of the slump for Chelsea and Mourinho. Apparently, the lady wasn’t just a Physio, she was very integral to the team, she had some influence and even though her impact might not have been very visible on the surface, they only had to let her go to realize their folly. There are people like that in every team. I like to believe that that event affected the team morale and see where they are on the table today — too low for me to even see.

Lesson:
Don’t Sack Your Eva Carneiro.



Career Lesson Three

Story:
Mourinho has a terrible attitude: he blames everyone but himself when things go awry. Many examples come to mind, but one is fresh. When Chelsea lost to Southampton earlier this season in the premiership, Mourinho cleverly brought in Matic, a defensive midfielder, when he needed to score. Now Mourinho perhaps had seen that that match was a lost cause and wanted to take the media attention away from him. Guess what the ‘special one’ did: baba brought in Matic, waited for Chelsea to concede an inevitable goal and almost immediately removed Matic again.

Now the uninitiated in the mind-games of Mourinho would not easily understand that move, but I will enlighten you. By removing Matic after Chelsea conceded that goal, Mourinho cleverly diverted media attention away from himself, and summarily made the Matic the scape-goat by simply making it appear like Matic was responsible for that goal and he had to be removed. In the end, most people blamed Matic, not Mourinho for the loss.

Lesson:
Prepare for downtime. Things will not always go right and when they eventually go wrong, don’t
push the blame to others, take responsibility and man up.



Career Lesson Four

Story:
Mourinho has a consciousness of self that is unrivaled. The man exhibits the highest form of self-love (or selfishness). When he first came to Chelsea after winning the Champions league with Porto, the guy ceremoniously announced to the English media that he was ‘the special one‘. He had a brilliant spell thereafter. Correct me if I’m wrong, I think he later announced himself as ‘the only one‘ (can’t remember if that was in England, Italy, or Spain).

Frankly, Mourinho is a great coach and winner. But the guy doesn’t just praise his teams as much as one would expect especially as his success is largely tied to the efforts of his players. Mourinho however takes more of the accolades for himself. Mourinho competes with his star players for glory and attention.

Lesson:
It’s okay to give yourself a pat on the back for a job well done, but it’s better when you do
more of same to your team. You might be special, but you equally need a great team to succeed.

Pheww…that’s all folks!


You are the one that is wrong. Mourinho can teach you on all these that you highlighted.

He has been coaching for 15 years as a substantive coach and about 10 years earlier as an assistant coach , that is about 25 years all together. I am sure your career has not spanned 15 years. Therefore, you have a lot to learn from Mourinho.

He predicted what is happening and sought to buy a central defender, natural left footed player, an outstanding mid-fielder and a striker to have a balanced team, unfortunately Chelsea was unable to get all these as expected due to many reasons that I don't want to go into now.

The only lesson here is : Failure is part of Success. Anybody can fail but learn from your failure. Failure is a way of learning a better way of doing a particular thing.

Remember that Mourinho just got 4 Guinness Book Award, a feat you may not achieve in life.

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Re: 4 Big Career Lessons Managers Can Learn From Mourinho And Chelsea Slump by hahn(m): 3:06pm On Nov 16, 2015
Dearpreye will love this smiley

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Re: 4 Big Career Lessons Managers Can Learn From Mourinho And Chelsea Slump by DrChukzy(m): 3:07pm On Nov 16, 2015
OP...Your head don knack ground already. You should be thinking of how to re-arrange your miserable and yeye life. Oloshi
Re: 4 Big Career Lessons Managers Can Learn From Mourinho And Chelsea Slump by maajin007(m): 3:07pm On Nov 16, 2015
this is a challenge Chelsea will overcome continue wailing
Re: 4 Big Career Lessons Managers Can Learn From Mourinho And Chelsea Slump by maajin007(m): 3:08pm On Nov 16, 2015
this is a challenge Chelsea will overcome continue wailing;Chelsea fans love mourinho
Re: 4 Big Career Lessons Managers Can Learn From Mourinho And Chelsea Slump by dupcydo(f): 3:09pm On Nov 16, 2015
Mr. u sounded like u know José Mário dos Santos Mourinho Félix. that man history put together better pass ur generation. typical Africa mentality.
Re: 4 Big Career Lessons Managers Can Learn From Mourinho And Chelsea Slump by hummerwise(m): 3:10pm On Nov 16, 2015
shit happens but achievements speaks

Re: 4 Big Career Lessons Managers Can Learn From Mourinho And Chelsea Slump by McBrooklyn(m): 3:11pm On Nov 16, 2015
Sweetyie:
Mtcheeewwwww, nonsense, I'm a proud Chelsea fan n there is nothing u -OP can do about it

What If I Told You I have something for you Sweetie wink
Re: 4 Big Career Lessons Managers Can Learn From Mourinho And Chelsea Slump by UniqueGem(m): 3:11pm On Nov 16, 2015
zoom007:
nonsense write up, when barca went trophy less two seasons ago, beaten all round by bayern, you did not write your brainless article. for your information i'm a barca fan but this is the same coach that broke barcas dominance in laliga and laid a template for countering tiKi taka. Just say u hate mourinho for his achievements. He is the best coach in the past 15years of football so when he talks on management professors in business schools listens
@emboldened, you needn't lie to make your point. I know how a chelsea fan reacts and seeing the way you attacked this post, i knew you were a CFC fan even as you claimed barca. I only needed to go through your older posts to make sure i was right. And guess what........

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Re: 4 Big Career Lessons Managers Can Learn From Mourinho And Chelsea Slump by bettercreature(m): 3:12pm On Nov 16, 2015
The major problem of mourinho is that he always stick to a set of players which always lead to his downfall every third year
In this life,if you refused change,change will force itself on you
You have to buy players every year to create competition in the squard
failure of mourinho to participate effectively in the last 2 transfer windows lead to cheasea's downfall
everything in this life need maintainance failure to do so always lead to disasater
Re: 4 Big Career Lessons Managers Can Learn From Mourinho And Chelsea Slump by Chukzyfcb(m): 3:15pm On Nov 16, 2015
I'm also a barca fan, and No! Mourinho's problem didn't start with the dismiss of eva carneiro. Have u forgotten they didn't win any pre-season match, the only game in pre-season u might call a success for them was against barcelona, when they won the penalty shootout. Meanwhile, why are you quick to judge, Klopp"s dortmund finished the 1st half of bundesliga in 17th position and he rose the team to top7 spot later. If dortmund with less player & less financial muscle can do the magic, how much more chelsea. Learn to be a good analyst and not just one who likes Venting!!!

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Re: 4 Big Career Lessons Managers Can Learn From Mourinho And Chelsea Slump by pareto(m): 3:15pm On Nov 16, 2015
Although your post may look interesting but you messed it up with contradictions. You don't know the player involved if fabregas or Hazard. But you write as if u know about the club and the Manager. How come u watch the southampton match with ur view on Matic and Mourinho. I conclude that ur write up is just incoherent, with a swipe at the club and Manager, and it is full of crap.
You are giving urself headache. Better you stick With your Tom and Jerry team.

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Re: 4 Big Career Lessons Managers Can Learn From Mourinho And Chelsea Slump by Mosh1: 3:16pm On Nov 16, 2015
Aston Villa will soon lost its position at the bottom of the league as Chelsea is mounting pressure.

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Re: 4 Big Career Lessons Managers Can Learn From Mourinho And Chelsea Slump by medar(m): 3:16pm On Nov 16, 2015
I love your analysis. In fact, I just added to my leadership lessons. Very true.
Re: 4 Big Career Lessons Managers Can Learn From Mourinho And Chelsea Slump by dannyfillz(m): 3:20pm On Nov 16, 2015
zoom007:
nonsense write up, when barca went trophy less two seasons ago, beaten all round by bayern, you did not write your brainless article. for your information i'm a barca fan but this is the same coach that broke barcas dominance in laliga and laid a template for countering tiKi taka. Just say u hate mourinho for his achievements. He is the best coach in the past 15years of football so when he talks on management professors in business schools listens

Disappointed....

A barca fan will never talk like this
Re: 4 Big Career Lessons Managers Can Learn From Mourinho And Chelsea Slump by barzarlee: 3:22pm On Nov 16, 2015
Mourinho!!!d gods are angry
Re: 4 Big Career Lessons Managers Can Learn From Mourinho And Chelsea Slump by bxcode(m): 3:23pm On Nov 16, 2015
For me, Mourinho's problem is just one thing because some other person can still go through all you listed and the outcome will be favorable. Mourinho's problem is nothing but PRIDE, simple. And that truism that pride comes before fall is constant and waits for anyone that walks down the path.

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Re: 4 Big Career Lessons Managers Can Learn From Mourinho And Chelsea Slump by Tintinnoty(m): 3:27pm On Nov 16, 2015
anapz10:
Rubbish.....and Wats d meaning of this?
u wey never get career,, u coming on here and correcting and analysing some1 who is already fulfilled......some1 u don't know his background,u don't know how he survived and grew up....u just sitting hopelessly there critizing mourinho who is already established and known.....
Guy...think deep and evaluate yourself...
Bitter but truth!!!


You don't just come on to social media and attack people you know little or nothing about just because they chose to speak out there mind. How do you know he has no career, you assume right? Probably you're a frustrated Chelsea fan who just like their coach transfer aggression and blame everybody for their woes

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Re: 4 Big Career Lessons Managers Can Learn From Mourinho And Chelsea Slump by giftedben: 3:28pm On Nov 16, 2015
undecided so what's your Point? In football consistency matters and the last time I checked Chelsea fc are always consistent in Winning the likes of Baca, Arsenal and Manutd. Can't a champion play a little. @least Chelsea are doing promo by given away 3points every weekend. But you guys aren't confident of betting against them. Such a pity, I always knew Baca players as deaf and Dumb but I never knew that Baca fans are like Wenger. You just can resist Chelsea Fc.
Re: 4 Big Career Lessons Managers Can Learn From Mourinho And Chelsea Slump by spacyzuma(m): 3:28pm On Nov 16, 2015
HAHAHAHAHAHA grin grin grin

I love this!

I don't agree with everything, but I was entertained by this article.

Kudos, OP!
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Re: 4 Big Career Lessons Managers Can Learn From Mourinho And Chelsea Slump by danton(m): 3:31pm On Nov 16, 2015
These are your career lessons right? keep it to your self shocked
Re: 4 Big Career Lessons Managers Can Learn From Mourinho And Chelsea Slump by Isaacmacdon(m): 3:31pm On Nov 16, 2015
Don4life:
Is is not supposed to be a guide to failing Managers like Mourinho. It is not even a piece of advice; it’s merely some rant by me, a Barcelona fan, who derives pleasure from seeing Chelsea and Mourinho play badly. For the Chelsea fans who have the privilege (or misfortune) of reading reading this piece; this is my opinion, not Jobberman’s.

With that said, let’s get down to it, shall we?



Career Lesson One

Story:
Chelsea FC have only won ONE Champions league trophy and I remember vividly that after that final, the only set of football fans who ‘had the right’ to speak at viewing centres were Chelsea fans. The rest of us dared not, even though at the time fans of FC Barcelona, Manchester United, FC Bayern, R.Madrid, Juventus and a few others had won (or celebrated winning) that same trophy multiple times. But Chelsea got it once and all hell was let loose; they just wouldn’t let us rest anymore.

Again, Mourinho is famous for repeatedly insisting that Arsene Wenger is a ‘specialist in failure’. The guy sees every pre and post match press conference as an opportunity to rant, complain and insult the person of Arsene; that’s more like his favorite pastime. Well, I bring good news; the dude called Mourinho now wins just one match in every month. Now, who’s the specialist in failure? I can’t laugh abeg.

Lesson:
Enjoy your success, but don’t rub it in the faces of other people.



Career Lesson Two

Story:
Chelsea sacked the only coach to have ever gotten them the Champions league trophy (what Mourinho would never be able to do for them) just a season after. The guy was dismissed like he never did anything good for them — the same idiotic way some bosses dismiss their secretaries/typists after a small typo.

Fast-forward to 2015, Mourinho in his characteristic autocratic manner ‘disciplined and dismissed’ the pretty, affable and reliable team physio, Eva Carneiro over some flimsy and almost irrelevant on-field situation. By the way, the Physio was clearly doing her job by attending to the injured Chelsea player– I think it was Hazard…or err Fabregas; can’t really remember, I hardly watch Chelsea matches — they bore me.

Need I remind everyone that that was the beginning of the slump for Chelsea and Mourinho. Apparently, the lady wasn’t just a Physio, she was very integral to the team, she had some influence and even though her impact might not have been very visible on the surface, they only had to let her go to realize their folly. There are people like that in every team. I like to believe that that event affected the team morale and see where they are on the table today — too low for me to even see.

Lesson:
Don’t Sack Your Eva Carneiro.



Career Lesson Three

Story:
Mourinho has a terrible attitude: he blames everyone but himself when things go awry. Many examples come to mind, but one is fresh. When Chelsea lost to Southampton earlier this season in the premiership, Mourinho cleverly brought in Matic, a defensive midfielder, when he needed to score. Now Mourinho perhaps had seen that that match was a lost cause and wanted to take the media attention away from him. Guess what the ‘special one’ did: baba brought in Matic, waited for Chelsea to concede an inevitable goal and almost immediately removed Matic again.

Now the uninitiated in the mind-games of Mourinho would not easily understand that move, but I will enlighten you. By removing Matic after Chelsea conceded that goal, Mourinho cleverly diverted media attention away from himself, and summarily made the Matic the scape-goat by simply making it appear like Matic was responsible for that goal and he had to be removed. In the end, most people blamed Matic, not Mourinho for the loss.

Lesson:
Prepare for downtime. Things will not always go right and when they eventually go wrong, don’t
push the blame to others, take responsibility and man up.



Career Lesson Four

Story:
Mourinho has a consciousness of self that is unrivaled. The man exhibits the highest form of self-love (or selfishness). When he first came to Chelsea after winning the Champions league with Porto, the guy ceremoniously announced to the English media that he was ‘the special one‘. He had a brilliant spell thereafter. Correct me if I’m wrong, I think he later announced himself as ‘the only one‘ (can’t remember if that was in England, Italy, or Spain).

Frankly, Mourinho is a great coach and winner. But the guy doesn’t just praise his teams as much as one would expect especially as his success is largely tied to the efforts of his players. Mourinho however takes more of the accolades for himself. Mourinho competes with his star players for glory and attention.

Lesson:
It’s okay to give yourself a pat on the back for a job well done, but it’s better when you do
more of same to your team. You might be special, but you equally need a great team to succeed.

Pheww…that’s all folks!

great write up. Buh u r a sentimental **** .. Its obvious u r an arsenal fan.. Perfect time 2 mock sum1.. There's sumtin u shud knw,Dnt repay evil with evil...
Re: 4 Big Career Lessons Managers Can Learn From Mourinho And Chelsea Slump by BERNANKE(m): 3:32pm On Nov 16, 2015
Joshua tree

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