Why Minari’s Jacob Yi Is Every Immigrant Leader’s Mirror
Leadership insight from “Minari”: They need to see me succeed at something for once.
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Bernardo’s Rebuttal: How West Side Story Challenges Leaders to Confront Bias
Leadership insight from “West Side Story”: If you’re all white in America.
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From Migrant Fields to Mission Control: José Hernández’s Twelfth Try
Leadership insight from “A Million Miles Away”: I’ve applied 12 times, and yes sir, I’ve been on the verge of giving up after each and every rejection, but you know what, sir? Here I am. So you can turn me down again, but rest assured, I’ll be standing here again in a year.
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How Rocky’s Final Bell Became an Anthem for Perseverance
Leadership insight from “Rocky”: Nobody’s ever gone the distance with Creed, and if I can go that distance, you see, and that bell rings and I’m still standin’, I’m gonna know for the first time in my life, see, that I weren’t just another bum from the neighborhood.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.