John Amaechi: prediction

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…But institutions or teams or companies that appear dysfunctional, they’re often highly functional in other ways. So if you think how Michael Jordan treated his fellow Chicago Bulls, well, that defined one part of the culture, but the team did incredibly well, right? Cooperated on the court, high level of discipline. They knew not to pass the ball to Bill Cartwright too much. Why is that the thing that defines the culture? So, it is the thing that defines the culture, especially because the people listening to you and I talk aren’t going to pay their aging center $5 million a year. They aren’t going to pay the vast majority of their players over a million dollars a year, and they aren’t going to have a player, even one of the caliber anywhere near of a Michael Jordan. So we can take the example that is as rare as, I don’t know, Adamantium and have it be the thing we go by, or we can say that most companies have extraordinarily average people within it, and so they don’t get to play by the same rules. Plus, I would point out all those people who loved watching, I’ve never seen it, the program that they did about Michael Jordan and his years in that, look at the number of people who didn’t show up, the number of people who wouldn’t appear in that program despite having perhaps made their mark, earned their stripes and certainly earned championships with him, they wouldn’t even show up on his testimonial show. 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.…

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