Michael Strahan

OTA LEADERSHIP INDEX

Michael Strahan

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All The Smoke

PORTRAIT: Airman 1st Class Andrew Britten · Public domain · WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

ARCHETYPE

The Navigator

Judgement in the fog, money, risk and the call others cannot make.

Michael Strahan is The Navigator because reinvention, for him, is a matter of orientation rather than escape. He treats each new arena, GMA, Fox, game shows, production, like a sideline timeout before re-entering play, compartmentalized and deliberate. Every setback, from being doubted out of TSU to absorbing double-teams, becomes directional data rather than deterrence.

IN THEIR WORDS, WHY NAVIGATOR

What motivates me is to be able to do things that kind of show people that as an athlete, as a black man, I can do other things outside of hit somebody who's carrying a football.

ON CROSS-CAREER MOTIVATION AND IDENTITY

If someone sees it as a successful failure, I'm still learning something, which is all I care about. I take something out of every experience.

ON BUILDING A MEDIA CAREER THROUGH ITERATION

Everything backs up to sports. I think about one thing, and when I'm there, I'm present — because you never know who's watching, and it may be the only one thing that somebody else does.

ON COMPARTMENTALIZATION ACROSS MULTIPLE ROLES

ALL THE SMOKE

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