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THOMAS TUCHEL
THOMAS TUCHEL is not your average football manager looking to other sports coaches for tips on how to be a leader. 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. 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. But while Chelsea’s personable manager Tuchel T says he is constantly open to learning from others, those he leans on for lessons are not the average over-achievers in world sport, The German says: “They are teachers. Unknown persons, teachers of classes, the person who runs the school of my daughters. “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.
“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...
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