Books by Mike Carson

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 a 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 act, remark, 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, offer 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.Featuring: Roy Hodgson, Carlo Ancelotti, Arsène Wenger, Sam Allardyce, Roberto Mancini, José Mourinho, Brendan Rodgers, Harry Redknapp, Sir Alex Ferguson, Walter Smith, Mick McCarthy, Gerard Houllier, Tony Pulis, Martin O''Neill, Neil Warnock, Howard Wilkinson, Kevin Keegan, Dario Gradi, Andre Villas-Boas, David Moyes, Alex McLeish, Hope Powell, Martin Jol, Glenn Hoddle, Chris Hughton, David Platt, Paul Ince, and George Graham.

Meeting a local woman at a service project in Appalachia, the narrator of Mike Carson's poem "Muse" hears from her "Those words, iron twang of loss," that "cut soft ideas of beauty out." Carson's lean, spare collection The Keeper's Voice unflinchingly engages those hard ideas of beauty, of goodness.Direct and often colloquial in their language and traditional in their forms -- blank verse, quatrains, sonnets -- the poems' voices arise from a wide range of viewpoints and situations: from an altar boy thawing a frozen gate lock while early Mass goes on without him, to a returning Vietnam veteran who takes up bull riding; from a boy calling cows in the pre-dawn dark, to a narrator providing instructions for teaching crows to talk; from a new cop, a Christian who must shoot to kill in a ghetto bar, to a family discovering the ashes of a stillborn child among a dead sister's belongings. One poem interweaves locker room slogans with phrases from the Requiem Mass for a friend who died playing football; another centers around a single shout from a wife to her husband threatened by an untethered bull.Refreshingly straightforward, yet suffused with weight, maturity, and passion, The Keeper's Voice projects a wise and uncompromising vision.

Hvordan arbejder man med ekstremt talentfulde mennesker? Hvordan skaber man sammenhold og loyalitet i et team fuld af egositer? Hvordan håndterer man kriser? Hvordan sikrer man bedst langvarig succes? Hvordan bevarer man roen under pres? Som leder i erhverslivet stilles du over for mange af de samme udfordringer, som fodboldmanagere gør. Og der er meget at lære af dem. I denne bog løfter nogle af verdens største managere sløret for, hvad der kræves for at være leder i en af de mest konkurrencebetonede brancher, der findes. Hvor presset fra medier, fans, klubejere og den økonomiske virkelighed er ekstraordinært stort, og hvor du dagligt udfordres maksimalt på dine evner til at lede og levere resultater.Bogen giver indsigt i ledelsesmæssige emner, der er relevante for ledere i alle grene af erhvervslivet. Hør José Mourinho fortælle om, hvordan man håndterer folk med talenter ud over det sædvanlige. Arséne Wegner om spillet i kulissen. Sir Alex Perguson om at skabe vedvarende succes. Carlo Ancelotti om at opbygge vinderkultur. Med dansk forord er Dan Hammer, adm. direktør i Royal Arena i København og tidligere direktør i F.C København/PARKEN Sport og Entertainment.