Tyra Banks regrets rejecting a magazine empire to avoid micromanaging
Tyra Banks · Tyra Banks: Personal brand power · Apr 19, 2022 · at 22:12
Tyra Banks reflects on early career mistakes and learning the distinction between executive vision and micromanagement.
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“One of the top magazine companies, they came to me and wanted me to do a magazine. How Oprah has her magazine, how Martha Stewart has magazines, Rachel Ray has magazines, and they wanted me to do a magazine. I remember being in that meeting with these 12 people in this huge, beautiful conference room, and me saying, I don't have time for that. I'd have to look at every single page and approve of myself, and, you know, I'm hosting my modeling show, and I'm doing this, and I just don't have time, and I'm doing that. I didn't understand that true leaders, they're the visionary, but they don't have to do every damn page and do the typesetting and the whole, I mean, I just felt like I needed to be so close, and I said no to something that I think would have been extremely beautiful, powerful in the way that I see power of giving knowledge, and so I think that was a huge mistake.”
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