Arsene Wenger

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This paper details the characteristics that go together to make the perfect company manager. It focuses on the the manager of Arsenal Football Club (AFC) in England, Arsene Wenger, who has been uniquely successful in taking his club from zeroes to heroes by using a combination of both Western science and Eastern Zen and looks at his background from his education through to his financial success as the longest-serving manager in Arsenal's history and also the most successful in terms of trophies won.

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"Arsene Wenger was born in Strasbourg (France) near the border of Germany in 1949. His upbringing and education is therefore a mix of French artistic sensibility coupled with a strong German work ethic and attention to science. Wenger realizes the importance of a good formal education to being a good manager. He has a degree in engineering and a Master's degree in economics. He is a fluent speaker of French, German and English, as well as speaking some Japanese, Spanish and Italian. In the English Premier League, traditionally a blue collar domain, the urbane and educated Wenger stands out and has thus attained the nickname 'professor'. Although his degrees and languages may not seem to have any immediate connection with his success as a soccer coach, the success of Wenger as we'll see is very much down to his holistic outlook on performance and how being a rounded, high-performing manager is critical to this."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Palmer, Myles (2008), Arsene Wenger: The Professor (London: Virgin Books).
• Rivoire, Xavier (2007), Arsene Wenger: The Biography (Aurum Press Limited, London).

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