to be fair to be confident you need to have self belief, or self awareness. which can be seen as being arrogant. Sam is highly confident, so can be seen as being arrogant in that regard. people usually associate arrogance with ignorance, which can be negative. Reading the original post, I see it as being more positive than negative.
With Clarko, in his last years with us, he became ignorant as he failed to acknowledge the severity of our list, and kept trying to prop it up and do it his way, rather than listen to others and start a re-build. Kennet is another where he would go off half cocked and start sending out embarrassing tweets for his own ego.
so from my reading of the original post, I see it more as a positive rather than being a negative, because as you have stated he is surrounding himself with experienced people, and seems to be listening, enabling him to learn. as the original poster implies Sam does seem a natural, and that’s through Sam’s self belief. It’s only going to be a problem later, if Sam becomes ignorant and stops listening. My belief and hope is that Sam has the intelligence, to not fall into that trap.
