CHAPTER 1
HOW TO CREATE A HIGH-PERFORMANCE TEAM
As a teenager, John Amaechi was, in his words, an ‘uncoordinated, hugely overweight nerd with Coke-bottle glasses and no friends’. Then, when he was 17, two sports scouts stopped him in the street in North West England and asked him whether he’d ever thought of playing basketball. Because, for all John’s self-described deficiencies, brutally laid out in his memoir Man in the Middle, he was also enormously tall. Within a few years, John was a star player in the US National Basketball Association league.
John’s journey is an extraordinary one. Born in Boston, Massachusetts to an English mother and Nigerian father, he came to the UK as a child when his parents’ marriage broke up. His mother, a doctor, ...
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