Children's 'EAT Sleep Football Repeat' Hoodie

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This proved remarkably powerful, the new arrival taking time to introduce the people he’d only just got to know himself. The results showed that as individuals joined the team activity the total effort was less than what they were capable of. The pillars of Liverpool’s success are 1) Using the Data, 2) Having a clear Plan, 3) Being Relentlessly Inclusive and 4) Creating Psychological safety.

Both in person and notably he also encouraged them to connect with each other at night on their games consoles. Pairs tended to contribute about 93% of the sum of their personal capacity, groups of three pulled 85% of their potential. Including interviews with Klopp, Liverpool players and leading management psychologists we discover the 4 secrets of Klopp’s culture at Liverpool (data, a simple plan, inclusivity, psychological safety). Bundesliga he seemed to be sent to the stands [by referees] every four weeks because he often had no control over his emotions. Two very basic questions but an illustration that he wants someone who will fit in the heavy metal approach.

For his first season in the Bundesliga Mainz had the smallest budget and the smallest stadium in the league. Alongside this episode about Jurden Klopp’s team culture is an episode about the Barcelona approach to team culture – based on a long discussion with Damien Hughes author of The Barcelona Way. To try to change this leaving mentality after one game Klopp took the team out to take a bow and salute the Kop at the end of a 2-2 draw with West Brom. One of his classmates at school Harmut Rath reported that “Jurgen was a genius in telling jokes he made everyone in class laugh… the life and soul of the classroom”. By the time that a group reached a size of 8 people were contributing about 49% of their maximum strength.

Klopp’s manager at Mainz was Wolfgang Frank, a man credited with introducing the 4-4-2 to German football, Frank is often cited by Klopp as his biggest inspiration. After Hull City were thrashed 5-1 by Liverpool at Anfield, Curtis Davies tried to explain how it felt to defend against Klopp’s men. Christian Heidel – the former sporting director at Mainz who elevated Klopp from defender to manager in 2001 reported that Klopp’s secret weapon was always his passion. Sometimes when we are hatching business plans and models we can forget that we’re not taking about metal hammers and metal nails, we dealing with people with anxieties, emotions and feelings.

There can’t be many premiership clubs who employ a doctor of theoretical physics to run their mathematical modelling but Liverpool are far more data driven than other clubs. The biggest workplace survey in the world is conducted by Gallup – almost 2 million workers across more than 70 countries. At Mainz he built on Wolfgang Frank’s blueprint taking the team first to promotion and then scoring 11th place finishes. He was under clear instructions that he couldn’t do the role as a player manager so he retired from his playing.