Leadership the Sven-Goran Eriksson way : how to turn your team into winners /
Julian M. Birkinshaw.
- Second edition
- Chichester, England : Capstone Publishing Ltd., c2004
- xv, 158 pages ; 25 cm
Includes index.
Enter Svennis -- Swedes 2 Turnips 1 -- Leaders do the Sven thing -- Leaders are different --The leader as coach -- Keep your distance -- Motivate to win -- There is an I in team -- Keep it simple -- Never walk alone -- Open goals -- Face up to failure
Examines the leadership style of the England football manager Sven-Goran Eriksson. This work presents an argument that Eriksson's approach is important because it brilliantly exemplifies a new leadership which defies conventional and historical stereotypes of how leaders think and behave.