Gonzales
Professor Barnett
Career Success Strategies
January 22, 2012
Strategy Assignment

The person that has influenced me the most that I grew up watching on television, reading about, and trying to follow his footsteps is Michael Jordan. Michael Jordan was born in Brooklyn, NY before his parents moved to North Carolina in order to give him a better life. Before Michael Jordan became the famous sports figure that he is today, he played baseball and was more into baseball than he was into basketball. When he went to high school he was trying to make the varsity basketball team but he was unable to make the team because he was not yet good enough. Through hard work and dedication he was finally able to make the team and became a starter. He eventually obtained a scholarship to play basketball for the University of North Carolina. At the University of North Carolina he obtained his education while continuing to become one of the best basketball players in the school’s history. His sophomore year at the University of North Carolina was a very memorable year because that was the year that he and his team won the National Championship and he was responsible for making the game winning shot. That would end up being his last year playing basketball at the University of North Carolina before being drafted into the NBA by the Chicago Bulls. His first year with the Chicago Bulls, he was named the teams Captain which was unusual for a rookie. This is one of the reasons that I started to look up to Michael Jordan because he was placed in a position of being a leader on a team his first year in the league. He would step up and lead his team, which was a losing team the year before, to a team that would eventually win 6 NBA Championships over his career. It was not only his skills on the court that I admired but it was his preparation, dedication, and his will