Nuno Espirito Santo

[stirred]

Insertion of another layer of management.
This new manager comes in immediately tries to ‘make his mark’ and justify his position bringing ‘change’ and ‘new ideas’.

Ie throwing his weight around.

Seen it many times.

Now, no one knows what the catalyst for this situation was, or even whether this is a ‘situation’ at all; but from the outside I know that a manager who has stabilised a team, developed young players for the club to make a profit and beat PSR whilst leading us into Europe for the first time in a generation has certainly accrued far more brownie points than a new guy who I know nothing about.

Good post.

I’ve also seen it in the corporate world, and what I’ve also seen and it’s not uncommon is the management structure / reporting lines different to what you might expect to accommodate individuals. Ie a current high performing guy doesn’t want someone brought in above him so he has a reporting line straight to the big man still. It’s pragmatic. There’s a reason it’s done, to avoid this situation, and avoid the guy quitting to join a competitor.