I wish I had the stats tools of Elias. In this game we had three players who each had a goal and an assist. I think that has to be about as unusual as a triple play. Can anyone shed light?
Here is my light: never would have happened last year because our manager was wedded to a system that we couldn't play and he failed to.effectively implement.
When I have a plan that I fail to implement effectively or fails in its effectiveness after implementation, I adjust. It is what managing means, IMO. I don't always get it right the first time, but I am not so egomaniacal that I don't see where I screw up. I think, on some level at least, the difference between good and bad managers isn't always getting it right the first time out. It's recognizing your mistakes earlier. To me, that is how I evaluate my more localized management centers: it's not how many mistakes you make. It's how early you recognize your mistakes.
Kreis was a zero at that. He never was willing to recognize or even acknowledge his own mistakes. That makes for a person I can't deal with, and once again, leads me to the conclusion that his termination, at the point it occurred, was truly the only decision one could reach.
There is a lesson there for anyone. Whether the manager or the hirer/firer of managers, you have to be willing to adapt your paradigm of success and evaluation, and even your theory of attack. If not, then you aren't really managing. You're simply dictating an old text book. And that is a dangerous, yet comfort-inducing echo chamber.
I live it every day. I know you do, too. Man, it sucks to be stuck with people who think their experience and last successes are the defining benchmarch for future performance, evaluation and decision-making. You should be informed by past experience, not a slave to it.
Organizationally, one man's hubris can take down a great company. And NYCFC did a great (and difficult) thing by cutting out the cancer early.
