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HOMAS TUCHEL is not your average football manager looking to other sports coaches for tips on how to be a leader. “It's about leadership with people, and that can, like I said, include teachers and anybody else who are responsible for people and for groups, and there you can get inspired.
Some bosses have liked to visit an NFL training camp or link up with NBA teams to find out how the best in other sports go about harnessing the talent at their disposal.
“But I also talk to leaders in sports and to leaders out there of different organisations.
And in England there has long been a tradition to pay a visit to a rugby union national training camp in order to see if there are little nuggets which can be transferred to the round ball game and lead to an improvement in performance.
“Sometimes when there is time and you speak to them, and you get influenced, you have your notes and years later you go through your notes and you find some stuff where you feel more comfortable now.
But while Chelsea’s personable manager Tuchel says he is constantly open to learning from others, those he leans on for lessons are not the average over-achievers in world sport,
“Because honestly the leadership, in my experience, is a constant change, and it's also the need to constantly adapt your style to what is needed and to your group and to change yourself and to develop and to grow.
The German says: “They are teachers. Unknown persons, teachers of classes, the person who runs the school of my daughters. And having led the Blues to Champions League glory for only the second time in the club’s history, few could argue that whatever leftfield ideas he has, they are working. “This can be half an hour talking with people who sell stuff. It's doesn't matter, it's not important that you speak to the biggest names and the biggest guys out there in the world.
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“I absolutely have the goal that I'm not the same coach anymore, like I was in mind when I was in Dortmund or even in Paris. It is simply not possible, it's not what I want to be. “Some values stay with me and some in some methods you constantly change and adapt because this is how I feel my role.
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I want to be a part of this whole group and I want to be a part of Chelsea, and I want to play my role, and I want to lead by example. And I feel very good in the moment.
