Leroy Rosenior is the Ten Minute Manager
By: Bob | May 21st, 2007
Back in ancient times, the early 1980s, there was a popular business self-help book called the One Minute Manager, which evidently offered all sorts of tips to help you become successful in the workplace. Obviously I never read it. I’m still waiting for it to be made into a movie, preferably one with lots of car crashes and things being blown up.
If he ever goes about penning a book, Leroy Rosenior should call it The Ten Minute Manager. Rosenior was appointed manager of English League Two club Torquay on Thursday only to be sacked ten minutes later. That’s right, ten minutes later. There is no such thing as job security these days. And no, he was not sacked because he dived at the press conference.
Rosenior was appointed as manager of the relegated League Two club last Thursday, only for chairman Mike Bateson to agree to immediately sell 51% of the club to a consortium – and Rosenior has reportedly claimed that the first act of the new owners was to relieve him of his duties.
Now again, I never read the One Minute Manager and make no claim to knowing anything about business, but don’t you think that you would hold off appointing a new manager ten minutes before you sell the club? Perhaps consult with the new owners or the potential manager before making a decision on one or the other.
Rosenior’s 10-minute job is believed to be the shortage managerial reign in English football history, beating out Dave Bassett’s four-day stint at Crystal Palace in 1984 for the dubious record.
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