I agree. Unconfident people will never take the personal risks needed to get big.
Neither is 'getting big'.
A lot of politics and industry is made up by vacuous people selling hot air these days. Too much confidence, too little respect and knowledge.
A story about Chuck Yeager. He did a stint as squadron commander in the Korean War. When he arrived at the airbase, he watched the squadron land. Afterwards, he called all the pilots together, got a bucket of paint, and marked off two lines across the runway.
He said the pilots were doing sloppy landings and would now land between the two lines. The pilots protested, saying that was impossible. So Yeager got in a jet, took off, circled the airfield, and touched down exactly at the midpoint between the lines.
The squadron pilots got the point.
Yeager wanted his pilots to survive combat, and that meant being perfect pilots every time. If I was a pilot, I'd be glad to have a squadron leader like that in command, even if he was a total asshole.
I'm still trying to find a reasonably priced copy of the book.
My dad, 32 missions over Germany in a B-17, said it was representative of how things were.
See also the original "Memphis Belle".
False. Steve Jobs had a massive ego and was by no means a saint. He got a girl pregnant and tried to skirt the responsibility. That's not someone with no ego.
Steve Jobs was also a genius and his bullying pushed a lot of people to excellence.
Someone can be both a genius on the one hand and a total shithead on the other. That's called being human. <3