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Yet again, so long José
Yet again, so long José
Those who have ambition of becoming effective leaders can learn several lessons from José Mourinho’s repeated sackings. Mourinho, at one time dubbed himself “the Special One” and who could argue with him? He later stepped this up to “the Only One” and still, not many openly disputed this as his achievements were enough to intimidate anyone who wanted to raise his head. Here is a Manager who holds the record of taking four clubs to the top of European football’s biggest leagues – The English Premiership, the Spanish La Liga, the Italian Serie A and his home country’s (Portugal) Primeira Liga. Along the way, he also picked up European football’s ultimate prize twice and became one of only three managers who has won the European Champion’s League with two different clubs. Of all his incredible achievements, what has always stuck out most for me was his unmatched ability to play to the strengths of his team even whe
Do it afraid
Your most potent strengths are not always the ones you recognize to be so – or the ones you naturally gravitate towards. The one that will eventually announce you to the world could be the very one you repeatedly run away from. There are times when we believe we’re just the “Don” at something because we’ve been doing it for so long and besides, it’s an area our supposed strength has always led us to. We just can’t imagine ourselves doing anything else. Someone then comes along who has never done it before and expresses a total lack of confidence in his ability to do it. He does it anyway and surprisingly proves to be a natural. This can be extremely demoralizing for the “Don” but, hey! Wake up and smell the coffee. That’s life. It means you’re yet to find your sweet spot.
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