Stuart Lancaster was no sooner England’s official shiny new manager than he was on The Rugby Club giving a play by play on his management and mentality. Less please. S’Alex has been a manager for 30 years and I have no idea what he does except produce bitter and twisted nutters who think the world is against them – they’re not paranoid either it is.
The more serious point is that managers use a variety of means on a variety of players to get results. The code is that the manager does not tell everyone what he is doing. Indeed the lowest point of S’Alex’s career, and Hugh McIllvanney’s, literally and figuratively was his historic ‘Managing My Petty Score Settling’ book period born of the hubris of 1999.
Whatever you do as a manager leave others to speculate. You want the guy you’re motivating to think you mean it not “ah he’s motivating me now”.