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Episode · Conversations with Tyler · 2025-10-01

Books mentioned on John Amaechi on Leadership, the NBA, and Being Gay in Professional Sports

2 books · With John Amaechi · Listen · Watch on YouTube

John Amaechi is a former NBA forward/center who became a chartered scientist, professor of leadership at Exeter Business School, and New York Times bestselling author.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

  1. The hunchback of Notre Dame

    Victor Hugo · at 11:13

    Discussed
    “The Hunchback of Notre Dame and I thought I'm trying to think, is that is that the story?”
    Tyler Cowen John Amaechi on Leadership, the NBA, and Being Gay in Professional Spo… 2025-10-01 Listen at 11:13
    Where to get it
    Amazon Audible

  2. It's Not Magic

    John Amaechi · at 59:58

    Discussed
    “And in your new book, It's Not Magic: The Ordinary Skills of Exceptional Leaders, if you had to distinguish what makes your approach to leadership different or special, uh what would you say?”
    Tyler Cowen John Amaechi on Leadership, the NBA, and Being Gay in Professional Spo… 2025-10-01 Listen at 59:58
    Where to get it
    Amazon Audible
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing It's Not Magic
“His newest book is It's Not Magic, the the ordinary skills of exceptional leaders.”
Tyler Cowen John Amaechi on Leadership, the NBA, and Being Gay in Professional Spo… 2025-10-01 Listen at 0:25
Own book Promises of Giants
“And one of them when they were reading my last book, uh The Promises of Giants, they were they were like, "Oh, I didn't know you played sport."”
Speaker John Amaechi on Leadership, the NBA, and Being Gay in Professional Spo… 2025-10-01 Listen at 53:00