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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When I am hiring leadership talent, and look at comparable candidates that have similar track records, similar educations and seem to be a good cultural fits - same same - except for one was a college athlete and the other was not - I will take the college athlete every time. (spoiler alert: And so will most other leaders of leaders).

The special treatment of college athletes extends well beyond the institutional walls. [/quote]

Forgot to add, I would not take the marching band, fraternity bro (even if in my fraternity), debate club champ, student paper editor, etc... You even bring that sort of stuff up in a leadership interview or on your CV, and I'm labeling you a weirdo. [/quote]

And this is why American businesses are fixated on doing away with regulation and focusing on the short term, necessitating a government bailout a couple of times per generation.[/quote]

All our problems would be solved if we had more flautists. Lizzo for president! [/quote]

Thomas Jefferson played the violin, cello and clavichord.

Harry S Truman was an accomplished pianist.

Abraham Lincoln played violin.

And, apparently, Chester A. Arthur played banjo.

Soccer players? GHW Bush and Trump. I don't think we have to have a big political argument to agree that Jefferson, Truman and Lincoln fared a bit better in office. (I have no idea about Chester A. Arthur.)

I write about sports. I've interviewed a lot of athletes. Some of them are smart, thoughtful people. A lot of them aren't.

So the idea that an athlete will necessarily be a better employee than a musician or a robot-builder or an entrepreneur is just laughable.[/quote]

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