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I’ve known a great many leaders in my time. Bosses, CEOs, heads, provosts, managers, politicians, coaches, supervisors, managing directors — whatever you call them, I’ve met my fair share of them. Some, I’ve known intimately. They are my friends, family, and close colleagues. Others I’ve watched from afar. Because it’s important to watch the leaders in our lives. According to Aristotle, it’s the only way we will learn. In his Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle argues that to be a good person doesn’t mean doing one or two good things but developing certain virtues that allow you to do good things. Doing a brave thing doesn’t make you courageous. Giving a compliment doesn’t make you kind. To be good is to practice — over and over again — until you transform your character. A good leader is no different. To develop the character traits of a good leader, you must consciously work on yourself. Treat your choices as bricks and, over time, those bricks will form something wondrous. The question then becomes, how do I know what bricks to lay? What must I do each day to evolve as a leader? To Aristotle, the best and easiest way to seed and nurture a virtue is to imitate those who embody it. Find a moral exemplar, a role model, or what the Greeks called a “phronimos.” So, I watch the leaders in my life. I see what a boss does or does not do. I take note of what works for this colleague and is an utter failure for another. Everyone in my life is a potted lesson in how to become better. And in my recent conversation on the How to Make a Leader podcast with Hannah Beaver, I shared what I’d learned over many years of philosophical observation. Here are three virtues I believe are essential to being a good leader.   Fairness: Treat everyone with a straight bat Many years ago, I had a boss who wasn’t always well-liked by everybody. I tend to get on with most people, but even I have to admit this was not an especially approachable, affable boss, willing to shoot the breeze. But that didn’t matter, because everyone respected him. People would roll their eyes and laugh, but no one really said a bad word about him. And the reason he was respected was that he enforced the rules the same for everybody. As I told Hannah, “Whether you were new or old, whether you’d been there for years or whether you had just joined the company, it didn’t matter. Here are the rules, and this is what I’m going to do.” When it was time to leave that job, I asked to renegotiate an element of my contract. I knew it was a long shot, but don’t ask, don’t get. He said no. He was very reasonable and very straightforward about it, but he told me that this was the same rule for everyone, and no special pleading or careful argument could persuade him otherwise. Since then, I’ve come to see fairness — “playing a straight bat,” as the Brits say — is an indispensable virtue for any leader.   Diligence: Roll your sleeves up and work hard If you are going to be a leader, you must work hard. This is how I worded it in our interview: “If you’re a leader, you often get paid more. And I should say, actually, not everybody has to become a leader. But if you do want to become a leader, I think you have to accept that with more money comes more work. I think you have to be willing to roll up your sleeves and to muck in. I have had a few bad leaders in the past who you felt as if they were delegating too much. Now, obviously, you should delegate as a leader or as a manager, but there have been times when I felt as though the leaders weren’t actually doing much work themselves.” I should caveat what my past self has said. While I think it is true that some managers in my past have crossed the border from “delegation” into “laziness,” it’s also true that, sometimes, the frontline grunts simply just don’t see what leaders are doing. They don’t see the blocked-out calendars, the long and tiring admin, or the hard job of hiring and…

We’ve finally passed it: the halfway marker. 42 games are officially filed away, and just 40 more contests remain. So set up camp, pitch your tent, fill your water reserves, light a fire, roast a s’more, burn a marshmallow beyond recognition, try again, same result, cut your losses, and ingest the charcoal-esque blackness of a failed marshmallow roast between two graham crackers. Take your rest, because if you thought the first half of the season would be challenging, it would be best to learn to disconnect from your emotions, and simply allow the remaining season to wash over you like the tide. We’ve witnessed the rebirth of the 2023-24 era Lauri Markkanen. We’ve celebrated the emergence of rising star Keyonte George as he knocks on the door of All-Star consideration. We’ve been brought to tears by the majestic flight of rookie Ace Bailey, and we’ve likewise been brought to tears by the incorporeal return of Taylor Hendricks. Brice Sensabaugh scored 43 points in a game — that was real. We’ve mourned victories and applauded defeat. We’ve watched with bated breath as Utah dangles its first-round pick inches from the fangs of the rabid dog that is OKC. We’ve made new friends, and we’ve forged new rivalries. The Dallas Mavericks’ fanbase has signed a declaration of war against the Utah Jazz (for… losing to them? Tanking better than the team with Cooper Flagg? I’m not entirely clear), which is something that Spurs fans should be able to empathise with, being Dallas’ storied in-state rival. This season, San Antonio is everything that Utah is not. They boast certifiable stars in Victor Wembanyama and De’Aaron Fox. They have nailed their recent draft picks like Stephon Castle and Dylan Harper. Utah hopes to compete in the distant future; San Antonio promises to confront them in the Playoffs if that day ever arrives. The result of this basketball game shouldn’t really be in question (the Spurs are home favorites by 16.5 points at the time of writing this), but the dichotomy between these two teams compels me toward introspection. The Utah Jazz (14-28) visit the San Antonio Spurs (29-13) with near-perfectly inverse records. The visitors lose nearly as often as the hosts win, and vice versa. This is true despite the fact that these two are virtually identical in average age of their players, Utah (25.3 years old average), the eighth-youngest roster in the NBA, and San Antonio (26.3 years), just one year older (per NBAage.com, which is a phenomenal URL for exactly this type of data). The fundamental difference between these two teams is the quality of their depth chart, where the Spurs are so age-efficient with their roster that they possess a player whose mere existence threatens the dynamic of basketball at large. Their most apparent advantage over the likes of Utah? Draft position. The Spurs have selected second, fourth, and first in the past three drafts, while the Jazz were left with scraps, picking fifth, tenth, and ninth in the same years. And with a larger margin for error, the Spurs have hit the bullseye every. Single. Time. Is Utah cursed with poor lottery luck? Will the Jazz ever be rewarded for their misery with a top pick, or are they doomed to circle their goals in perpetual motion? This question will gradually be answered as the season reaches its twilight, but for the moment, Utah faces yet another challenge. So here we sit at the midpoint of the 2025-26 journey. Staring into the face of a team miles ahead of the Jazz despite beginning in the same place just a few years ago. Set in the southern end of the Lone Star State, the Utah Jazz square off against the San Antonio Spurs. How to watch Utah Jazz vs San Antonio Spurs: Date: Monday, Jan 19, 2026Time: 4:00 PM MTLocation: Frost Bank Center, San Antonio, TXChannel: Jazz+, KJZZOdds: SAS -16.5 Calvin Barrett is a writer, editor, and prolific Mario Kart racer located in Tokyo, Japan. He has covered the NBA and College Sports since 2024.