During the 1980s it was downright frumpy, flying middle managers to Kansas City on bargain fares.
Few carousels whirl with the dizzying speed at which Chelsea send their managers flying – 16 in charge at Stamford Bridge during Ferguson's 27 years at Old Trafford – yet the achievements of Rafael Benítez as a stop-gap appointment suggest that mere longevity is not necessarily an asset.
A growing number of high-flying managers change organisations on the way to the top.
Only a tiny fraction of the country's high-flying managers are women.
But by the end of the century many more high-flying managers were changing employer in mid-career.
"The Talent-Growth Dynamic" argues that talent-dependent companies should be able to nurture enough high-flying managers internally to meet ambitious growth targets.
"They were very concerned about flying," Joseph Volpe, general manager of the Metropolitan, said last week.
"The fairing has considerable weight relative to the portion of the vehicle that's flying," said John Brunschwyler, manager of the Taurus rocket program for the Orbital Sciences Corporation of Virginia, which built the rocket and the satellite.
"Now they are flying high, the new manager is bedded in and they didn't have the points they have now".
Ms. Gardini, who has been working with Isaac Mizrahi on his one-man cabaret show and is his business manager, is flying to Milan this week with her husband, Craig Kinosian, an investment banker, for the opening of the opera season at La Scala.
Both play-off rivals struggled in the wet conditions, as passes went astray, tackles went flying in, and Robins manager Paolo Di Canio cut an increasingly frustrated figure on the touchline.
