When growth was available in large-cap stocks, as it was in 1997, 1998 and last year, there was very little reason for growth managers to migrate down the capitalization spectrum in search of growth.
Perhaps this is the main reason for safety managers to use those funny safety slogans so much.
This latest fiasco, which Benitez did not bother to discuss with reporters, should be enough of a reason for General Manager Steve Phillips to consider finding a different closer.
The reason for the manager's calm is that Williams has been this way before, even if he admits "it's by far the biggest tie I've been associated with".
As we saw last night, there is one more reason for a manager to go through the motions of arguing: it halts the movement of the game, and gives the umpires on the field time to ask themselves a few tough questions.
They include contracting and legitimizing the process with external parties and internal reasons-for-adoption such as managers' background, learning by doing, need to focus the organization, or reaction to problems.
There's a solid theoretical reason for rewarding top managers for selling their company.
The third reason for all these managers is the huge importance placed today on metrics.
Three of Italy's four biggest banks are linked to the centre-left opposition, and only one to Mr Berlusconi's friends on the right.A second reason for the fund managers' timidity is that, in Italy, minority shareholders are used to being brushed aside.
The anecdote is among several that hint at personal, sometimes unconscious but still fascinating religious and cultural reasons for the manager-client split, decades before the deaths of Cash, in 2003, and Holiff, two years later.
