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The Manager
- Inside the Minds of Football's Leaders
- Narrated by: Kyle Munley
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
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Summary
From the post room to the board room, everyone thinks they can be the manager. But how do you manage outrageous talent? What do you do to inspire loyalty from your players? How do you turn around a team in crisis? What’s the best way to build long-term success? How can you lead calmly under pressure?
The issues are the same whether you’re managing a Premier League football team or an FTSE 100 company.
Here, for the first time, some 30 of the biggest names in football management reveal just what it takes. With their every decision, remark, skill, and success or failure under constant scrutiny from the media and the fans, these managers need to be the most adroit of leaders. In The Manager they explain their methods, give examples of lessons they’ve learned along the way, and describe the decisions they make and the leadership they provide.
Each chapter tackles a key leadership issue for managers in any walk of life and, in their own words, shows how the experts deal with the challenges they face in an abnormally high-pressure environment. Offering valuable lessons for business leaders and fascinating behind-the-scenes insights for football fans, The Manager is an honest, accessible and unprecedented look at the day-to-day work of these high-profile characters and the world of top-level football management.
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- PlaylistDJs by garyfarmsocial
- 28-12-17
That is a funny sounding human reading this.
If this book wasn’t for you, who do you think might enjoy it more?
If it was read by a human and not a computer.
Would you ever listen to anything by Mike Carson again?
No.
How did the narrator detract from the book?
YES.
What character would you cut from The Manager?
The narrator.
Any additional comments?
I'd like my credit back please.
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- christopher
- 08-01-15
Worth a read
Some interesting facts and story's worth a read if you are a coach or manager of a football team I
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- Wrighty
- 12-04-16
Good book poorly narrated
Great content and insight into the leadership techniques required in football management. It was let down a little because the narrator pronounced every English and / or Scottish name phonetically instead of correctly. Made it sound very disconnected from the subject matter.
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- Anonymous User
- 12-11-18
Fantastic listen, poor pronunciation of Names
I found the mispronounced managers names difficult and football clubs names really ruined what could have been a 5 star listen
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- George
- 07-07-14
Awfully read
What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?
The reading in what could be best described as a sat nav voice being replaced for a fluent reading.
How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?
I would not have.
What didn’t you like about Kyle Munley’s performance?
It was comparable to a cheap sat nav, football teams pronounced incorrectly.
You didn’t love this book--but did it have any redeeming qualities?
It was factual.
Any additional comments?
I would probably recommend this book to purchase and read however the reading was truly awful. Filled with fact and content for the football enthusiast, but remaining focused near impossible. The man could not even say Celtic frustrating at best.
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4 people found this helpful
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- PubBore
- 25-09-15
Astonishingly bad choice of narrator
What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
Irritation.
Any additional comments?
Much as Kyle Muley annoyed me, its not his fault cause that's his voice. He was wrong for this book. The person who produced or directed this audiobook did a terrible job.
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- Martin S.
- 06-09-13
Decent content. Abysmal narration.
What disappointed you about The Manager?
A narrator who mispronounced names with shocking regularity. Bobby Carlton (not Charlton) Sow-ness (not Souness) Paris Saint Ger-main (not ger-man) keltic (not Sell-tic). Awful!
Who might you have cast as narrator instead of Kyle Munley?
Anyone who knows the first thing about football!
What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
Anger- there is someone who has been deprived of a narrating job.
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- Joe Reid
- 10-10-15
good book poor voice
computerized voice which is not great. otherwise some good insights into the world of management
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- katie jones
- 26-10-20
Manager
Good content just American narrator so pronounced everything wrong from places to peoples names. Overall good.
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- keith
- 29-05-18
Disappointing
Choice of narrator let's this book down badly. Couldn't get into it at all unfortunately.
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