Business Lessons We Learn From Movies
What Movies Can Teach Us About Business: 5 Lessons from Buddy the Elf
A favorite holiday classic is none other than Elf and more specifically, Buddy in all his unrelenting and infectious Christmas cheer. Although a great deal of the movie functions in comical hyperbole, there are still valuable lessons that emerge from Buddy’s approach to business during peak season in his life: Christmas. We invite you to…
Read MoreThe Greatest Showman: Going 7 Levels Deep with P.T. Barnum’s ‘Why’
Editor’s note: This blog category, Business Lessons We Learn From Movies, is one of my favorites, and the movie I’m reviewing today, is one of my new favorites, too! As a movie buff it’s not difficult for me to find beauty, inspiration, emotion, ideas, or even motivation watching a great flick. I might be behind…
Read MoreSelena – A Real American Drama
“Selena” Hard work, vision, entrepreneurship and the making of a true American dream! If you haven’t seen or heard of it, “Selena” is a movie based on the life of Selena Quintanilla Perez: a once up-and-coming Hispanic pop star. This biography follows the star from her humble beginnings to her untimely death in 1995 at the…
Read MoreNightcrawler: Observations of Where Marketing Meets Entrepreneurship
“If you want to win the lottery, you have to make the money to buy a ticket.” Lou Bloom A man at the end of his income, we immediately see the brilliant and complex nature of Jake’s character in this dark story of one thief’s quest to weasel his way into an industry and into…
Read More“The Social Network” – A Cautionary Tale
For those of you who have a Facebook page (1.23 billion active users worldwide) you have Mark Zuckerberg to thank. It’s not only Mr. Zuckerberg however, that helped dream up this idea. Although he is the main designer behind the internet site, there were other influencers who helped propel the process along. For those of…
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