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1 Oct 2025 Conversations with Tyler John Amaechi on Leadership, the NBA, and Being Gay in Professional Sports
“I would say to anybody who wants to model themselves after Steve Jobs, be that brilliant and that compelling, and that insightful and that prescient, and you can get away with it. But I would also say anyone whose idea of being a great leader is that their superpower is somehow intrinsically linked with their ability to be an asshole, has misunderstood the human condition, because nobody performs at their best when they’re frightened, nobody.”
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…But say Paul McCartney and the Beatles, a fine British band, George Harrison ended up hating him, Steve Jobs and Apple, those might be exceptions, but they seem to be exceptions that account for a large part of the GDP or the cultural impact of a sector. Yeah, they might well be. I would say to anybody who wants to model themselves after Steve Jobs, be that brilliant and that compelling, and that insightful and that prescient, and you can get away with it. But I would also say anyone whose idea of being a great leader is that their superpower is somehow intrinsically linked with their ability to be an asshole, has misunderstood the human condition, because nobody performs at their best when they’re frightened, nobody. It’s physically impossible. What are the kinds of rituals that leadership needs?…
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