The Operator
Execution, delivery and performance, gets the hard thing done.
Michael Jordan reads as The Operator because his leadership was built on precision execution and unrelenting accountability to results. His documented intensity with Chicago Bulls teammates was never motivational theatre, it was the direct application of standards he held himself to first.
“I've reached the pinnacle of my career. I just feel that I don't have anything else to prove. When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense of 'to prove something' as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game of basketball.”
undated
“I've missed over 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
undated
“I'm retired 99.9%. Of course, there always is that .1%.”
undated
THE RECORD IS CHECKABLE