7 Business and Strategy Lessons from the movie The Godfather
Until last weekend (and as part of my own initiative of watching the top 250 movies according to IMDb) I watched The Godfather. Besides being pleasantly surprised by the plot and the story in general, I identified while I was watching it, 7 interesting Strategic and Business lessons. Even that this is a classic 40 year old movie, the most interesting fact is that all the lessons can be applied nowadays because they actually keep their validity. Is important to mention that this lessons are not oriented to analyze the movie from a moral perspective. 1. First of all, listening. Who pays attention only to their reality is doomed to failure In the entire movie the character that presents the biggest transformation is without any doubt, Michael Corleone (Al Pacino), which starts as a noble public server and ends as the family business manager (The godfather). And even that this conversion reflects how us as human beings are influenced by ego, something that always...