these guys are all great at what they do. But running an organization of at most a couple hundred people people with at most two or three layers of management between top and bottom, and running an organization with tens of thousands of people with dozens of layers of management between top and bottom are two different animals.
Are there things one can learn from another? Absolutely. But Steve Jobs would run the New England Patriots into the ground in three months, and Bill Bellicheck would do the same to Apple.
Bill Belichick is the only one who does not deserve to on that list, imo.
Sutter is not only one of the finest hockey minds in North America today, he also served as owner, general manager, and head coach of his own junior hockey team in Canada (he still owns the team). And during that time he led Canada's junior national teams to multiple world championships before he joined the Devils as head coach last year.
....when I was working our CEO would occasionally bring in a coach to speak at out annual sales meeting...they were good speakers and had lots of interesting anecdotes....fun to be around.....to this day I remember a training film from Lombardi where he said “fatigue makes cowards of us all”....in other words you need to be in shape to be the most effective on your job.