Professor Marshall Goldsmith, the Best-Selling, Wall Street #1 Author, and celebrated Buisness Coach wrote : "What Got You Here Won't Get You There": How Successful People Become Even More Successful. Arsene Wenger should read it. Over the past 5/6 years Arsenal's Manager has been the very personification of Goldsmith's assertion. He arrived to an English Premier League dominated by Manchester United, and led by the Wily Old Fox Alex Ferguson, the challenge that lay ahead was immense, but he took it on with a gusto. Wenger's drive and resolute belief in his methods and unwavering stubbornness made him a truly Great Manager. He believed totally in what he was doing, and his confidence was infectious. An insatiable desire for a particular way of going about business, the Arsenal way, the Arsene way, never wavering, in a style so beguiling, Gourmet Football, Fine Dining in a land of Meat & Two Veg. Success followed, it almost seemed inevitable, Arsenal were Invincible. And then it stopped, abruptly. So what changed? Well, nothing. At least not in Wenger's mind. He carried on, regardless, in pursuit of the ideal. But the landscape had changed, and he wouldn't. Or maybe he couldn't? Natural History has a wonderful way of teaching lessons to those willing to learn. 10,000 Years Ago, there was another shift in the landscape, the aftermath of the ice-age. Two very different creatures, both feared and respected, and highly successful in their own ways, emerged from this shift. One had a taste for the finer things in life, a specialist diet of a particular brand of Wilderbeast, steadfastly refusing to change his diet. It was the way it had always been, and that is how it would continue to be. No matter how hard it was to find what he was looking for, he would continue to search for it, ignoring all other options. The Sabre Tooth Tiger never found what it was looking for. And became extinct. The other simply adapted to the changes, embraced them, and continued to evolve, devouring anything it could, and still does to this day. He's a Wily Old Fox that Alex Ferguson
I'm pretty sure they were hunted to extinction by humans. Not sure what that has to do with Arsene Wenger. Not sure what Wenger has to do with Man Utd either...is David lost?
