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Citizen Kane (1941): A slogan is not a biography; power looks complete only from the outside.
Leadership insight from “Citizen Kane”: I don’t think any word can explain a man’s life.
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The Apartment (1960): Stop narrating the feeling and start the next honest move.
Leadership insight from “The Apartment”: Shut up and deal.
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The Third Man (1949): Greatness is often bought with disorder; peace can settle for the merely useful.
Leadership insight from “The Third Man”: In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
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On the Waterfront (1954): Complicity costs more than courage; unused potential is a verdict, not a mood.
Leadership insight from “On the Waterfront”: I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am, let’s face it.
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All About Eve (1950): Name the conflict before it arrives; composure is not the same as denial.
Leadership insight from “All About Eve”: Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy night.
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Casablanca (1942): Duty outranks private desire when the stakes are larger than the self.
Leadership insight from “Casablanca”: The problems of three little people don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.
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The Danger of Nostalgia: Why Fallen Leaders Rewrite Their Own Stories
Leadership insight from “Sunset Boulevard”: I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.
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From Miracle to Method: How Leaders Systematize the Impossible
Leadership insight from “Life of Pi”: I will not die. I refuse it. I will make it through this nightmare. I will beat the odds, as great as they are. I have survived so far, miraculously. Now I will turn miracle into routine.
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Leading with Burning Platforms: How Shared Stakes Build Unstoppable Movements
Leadership insight from “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1”: Fire is catching. And if we burn, you burn with us.
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The Permission to Dream: How Leaders Build Beyond Their Own Limits
Leadership insight from “The Pursuit of Happyness”: Don’t ever let someone tell you, you can’t do something. Not even me. You got a dream, you got to protect it.