Former Manchester City and England U21 manager Stuart Pearce has advised aspiring managers to look up to Burnley's Sean Dyche.
Dyche has performed admirably at Turf Moor and won promotion to Premier League with the Clarets in his first full season with the club in 2013-14.
When asked who aspiring managers should look up to in modern football, Pearce told talkSPORT: "Sean Dyche.
"If I was a coach now looking to go into coaching or management, we've got a fella here who is a student of the game. He's open-minded and hasn't got an ego.
"He didn't play at the highest level, but I think when young coaches look to go out and educate themselves they look for the biggest names, the likes of (Pep) Guardiola and (Jose) Mourinho, but there are a lot of lessons to be learned from the people in the lower leagues as well.
"He's taken a team out of the Championship into the Premier League. He's managed at Watford where he was unfortunate to lose his job and they are probably now thinking; 'wow, we've let an incredible manager leave our football club'.
"He's managed at youth level at Watford as well, so he's done the spectrum by coming up slowly."[