Sep04

John Old suggests this article in The Observer as useful for an insight into leadership and teamwork in sport.

This newspaper article about the management style of Arsene Wenger, manager of English Premiership soccer club Arsenal, demonstrates how a management style that focuses on detail need not be accompanied by an authoritarian approach to leadership. Wenger is renowned for treating his players like adults and expecting them to accept personal responsibility, but couples this with intense attention to the tasks that they they need to undertake, and the support they need to undertake them.

A modern professional Rugby Union team involves the co-ordination of many more people than those who appear on the pitch.