What Position for Carlos Tevez?
I watched Manchester City’s manager Roberto Mancini’s outburst straight after the Champions’ League game in which Carlos Tevez reportedly refused to go on to the pitch. Mancini clearly said that Carlo Tevez would not play for him again. In fact at one point prior to this outburst he had claimed that it wasn’t his decision. It just seems that later as he appeared to gain encouragement from the supportive comments of the BBC’s man holding the microphone, he went the whole way and declared his position on his Argentinean ex-captain.
There are a few points of interest in the events both within and surrounding that interview.
If at all possible, no matter how emotional the situation becomes, we should try not to declare a position. Positions do not generally benefit us, they so often become obstacles later particularly if situations and conditions become clearer, alter to our advantage or pressure is applied upon us or the situation. Any or all of these things could be happening to Mancini at this moment. Our advice generally is avoid taking positions particularly when under pressure. Instead take a break, or if you cannot then speak generally, avoid commitments let the emotions evaporate.
In the German military a commander will only accept a complaint from an officer about a fellow officer if in writing and no complaint will be accepted within 24 hours of the event. I had a very similar condition imposed upon me only last year by my new mobile telephone. I found to my dismay that my “all singing and dancing” mobile phone whilst receiving mails via the group server in Glasgow, would not allow me to send mails due to some temporary incompatibility between the phone and the Glasgow server. It took weeks to resolve the technical problem but in that few weeks there were several occasions when I