Even if it's true, it doesn't rule out that he was a good manager (CEO sort of). In the jungle you have to be a bad guy to fight the other bad guys. We give our own bad guys power so that we can keep our hands clean.
One of my favorite places to go in the world is jungles. I've never really encountered bad guys there, and I've never fought anyone I've met in a jungle. I think you might want to work on a better metaphor, and also question your assumptions about any of this since on this I can't agree literally or metaphorically.