The Ledger
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Alex Rodriguez: Eliminate mid-tier candidates immediately to avoid being tricked
“The tens and the fives are easy to recognize. The tens, you know, jump out of the page, and the fives are people you're probably not going to hire. The challenge is when you have the six and the sevens, and the six and the sevens have the gift of gab, and are …”
Alex Rodriguez: Focus narrow and deep rather than wide and shallow
“The thought that I always share with my team is this whole idea that I see a lot of young people make this mistake where they go wide and shallow, and they try to be experts at all things, and we always talk about, at A-Rod Corp, narrow and deep.”
Alex Rodriguez: Athletes should do TV work to stay connected to younger fans
“Lean into your superpowers. Mine is basketball, yours is baseball. So go out and be the best baseball player you can. And when you have an opportunity you know, continue to do television work when you're playing, when you're done playing, so you can stay conne…”
Alex Rodriguez: Sports teams must blend institutional capital with passionate legacy owners
“But if there's a combination, Harry, where you can still remain and keep the Robert Krafts, the Jerry Joneses the Buss family still involved in the forefront, And because these franchises have exploded in enterprise value, then I think is a good mix because yo…”
Alex Rodriguez credits team collaboration over individual effort for all major achievements
“I think that we very, at least in my life, anything that I've done that's been horrific has been by myself. Anything that I've done that's been great has very little to do with me and really around the people that we've collected around the room to work as a t…”