The leadership of England's football squad in the recent Euros inspires AM's regular columnist Professor Jim Saker, emeritus professor of Loughborough University's business school and president of the Institute of the Motor Industry.
It was interesting to read the comments that were made about Gareth Southgate during the recent Euros. Southgate is a well-qualified coach who statistically is the most successful England manager since Sir Alf Ramsey.
He was however vilified by commentators in the early stages of the tournament for the way in which the team had played. Yet the team successfully won their group and were eventually beaten in the final by Spain.
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LEAaroy - 12/08/2024 14:27
Good analogy. Southgate is a leader with integrity and decency, who took England further than any recent predecessor. But the football was boring, and Southgate is no Mourinho. Give me Southgate over an armflapper anytime. To me the big relevance is that we have automotive leaders who get on with it, value their teams, obsessed with customer experience, brilliant at the basics, retail is detail, deliver consistent results. Then you have the visionaries who regurgitate consultants on the Kodak moment and how we must embrace mobility, agency models and how the millennials aren’t interested in owning anything. I think we are seeing who adds shareholder and stakeholder value.