Kendrick Perkins
The Operator
Execution, delivery and performance, gets the hard thing done.
Kendrick Perkins reads as The Operator because his standing is earned in hours, not headlines. Five-thirty flights, sixteen-hour Wednesdays, red-eye Fridays, all animated by Stephen A. Smith's lesson about making bosses money before taking any yourself. His hot takes come with public accountability, his relationships get managed privately, and the whole enterprise runs on a craft-first conviction that results, delivered relentlessly, will always outrank positioning.
“I still got goals that I want to achieve in this space. I'm learning a lot about the business, learning to trust no one in this space when it comes down to this workplace. I treated it as so and it's nothing personal because I'm gonna show up and continue to work on my craft.”
“I wake up every morning and I try to figure out ways to get my bosses paid, and then I try to find a way to get some of it. He works his ass off around the clock.”
“I will apologize for the comment. It was a lot of humor in that. But I'm gonna own up to and apologize. I think I'm still like in Boston, but I'm not just riding it.”
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