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.
“It took me a minute to figure it out, but this guy was not only awake before me, he had already worked out. He had just played in the finals days earlier. Meanwhile, I'd been off for months and I was still exhausted. What he did that day was incomprehensible to me.”
“Billion a year in sales, which would mean he makes about $180 million, he made $180 million. And so I just want to bring that to your attention because it's just a reminder that life is unpredictable. Coco start knows an orphan. Steven Spielberg started out as a 17-year-old kid trying to get an internship on Universal Lot.”
“Last episode of The Last Dance, they had just won the final championship. Well, actually, let me read something that happens at the beginning. There's another author who's wrote, I think he's written, I think he's wrote two other books, biographies on Michael. And this is what he said about Michael. Most people struggle to be present.”
“See how he stacked up against other players from across the country. And these are players, it says who had actually made their varsity teams as freshmen and sophomores, which Jordan obviously didn't, and distinguished themselves. And check out this sentence.”
Wikiquote: “Public record read”
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