Popcorn and Compliance

I have always loved the classic Universal monster movies from the 1930’s. This month I am exploring one movie each week to mine it for leadership and compliance lessons. For our final entry in this short series on Popcorn and Compliance, I look at the 1931 version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, starring Fredric March, who plays a possessed doctor who tests his new formula that can unleash people’s inner demons. The film is an adaptation of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, the 1886 Robert Louis Stevenson tale of a man who takes a potion which turns him from a mild-mannered man of science into a homicidal maniac. The film was a critical and commercial success upon its release. Nominated for three Academy Awards, March won the award for Best Actor. We consider some of the lessons for the compliance professional around moral licensing and ego depletion and time of day in a risk management regime.

Resources

Why Bosses can be Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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I have always loved the classic Universal monster movies from the 1930’s. This month I am exploring one movie each week to mine it for leadership and compliance lessons. For this first entry in this short series on Popcorn and Compliance, I look at the original Island of Lost Souls is a 1932 American pre-Code science-fiction horror film, and the first sound film adaptation of H. G. Wells’ 1896 novel The Island of Dr. Moreau. The film was directed by Erle C. Kenton, from a script co-written by science fiction author Philip Wylie. It stars Charles Laughton, Richard Arlen, Leila Hyams, Bela Lugosi, and Kathleen Burke. The plot centers on a remote South Pacific island where mad scientist, Dr. Moreau, secretly conducts experiments to accelerate evolution in plants and animals, with horrific consequences. Featuring depictions of cruelty, animal-human hybrids, and irreligious ideas, the release of Island of Lost Souls was embroiled in controversy. Banned in some countries for decades, Island of Lost Souls has become an influential film and has acquired cult film status.

Resources

Island of Lost Souls Review

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Richard Lummis and Tom Fox continue their review of Best Picture-winning movies and draw leadership lessons from them. It is also a way to watch some great movies and garner some leadership lessons. In this episode, we consider the movie Gladiator.  Highlights include:

• Movie Storyline
• Favorites Scenes
• Life Lessons
• Business Leadership Lessons
• Maximus’ Relationships 

Resources

8 Virtues of Gladiator Leadership

5 Powerful Life Lessons from Gladiator

Six Leadership Lessons from Gladiator

Down to Business: Seven leadership lessons from Maximus

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I have always loved the classic Universal monster movies from the 1930’s. This month I am exploring one movie each week to mine it for leadership and compliance lessons. For this first entry in this short series on Popcorn and Compliance, I look at the original 1941 version of The Wolfman, which starred Lon Chaney Jr as the Wolfman. Chaney embued the Monster with great pathos and in this podcast I explore some of the dichotomies found in the movie, which I believe move beyond simply good v. evil. Some of the supporting roles of Claude Rains as Laurency Talbot’s father, Bela Lugosi as the werewolf who attacks Chaney and Maria Ouspenskaya as Maleva, the mother of the original werewolf, who is an empathic and wise character that provides guidance, comprehension and comfort to the others. The movie is very atmospheric and a ton of fun. 

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In this episode of Popcorn and Compliance, Tom Fox explores one movie each week from the classic Universal monster movies 1930s to mine it for leadership and compliance lessons this month. For this second entry in this short series, Tom and Richard Lummis join forces to explore the 1931 movie, Dracula. Count Dracula is one of the four classic Universal Pictures movie monsters from the 1930s; including the Wolfman, the Mummy and Frankenstein’s Monster. What sets him apart from these other three? In particular what is the Dracula brand? Is it fanged teeth and a black cape? Is it the signature Bela Lugosi voice? Is it a bat? In this episode, Richard Lummis and I explore branding for business leaders and discuss the lessons a 21st century business leader can learn from a 1930s movie character.

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Richard Lummis and I are back. Today, continue our review of Oscar winning Best Pictures and the leadership lessons drawn from them. In this episode we consider the movie Out of Africa.

Highlights of this podcast include:

1. What are our favorites scenes from the movie?
2. What are the leadership lessons from Karen Blixen?
3. What are the leadership lessons from Denys Finch Hatton?
4. Is your business resilient?
5. Culture outside the US?
6. Do these lessons from this movie hold up today?

Resources

Leadership Lessons from Out of Africa

Study Guide to Out of Africa

A Historian Goes to the Movies

Out of Africa – 10 Inspirational Quotes from Karen Blixen

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I have always loved the classic Universal monster movies from the 1930’s. This month I am exploring one movie each week to mine it for leadership and compliance lessons. For this first entry in this short series on Popcorn and Compliance, I look at the original 1931 version of Mary Shelley’s seminal work, Frankenstein, which starred Boris Karloff as the Monster. Karloff embued the Monster with great pathos but in this podcast I want to consider the leadership lessons of Dr. Victor Frankenstein or really the lack of leadership by the good doctor which led to the deaths of a small child, his brother and the rape of his wife-to-be on her wedding day. Of course it also led to the unleashing of his Monster, technically called Frankenstein’s Monster, upon the movie going world for years to come.

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Richard Lummis and Tom Fox are back with another review of an Oscar-winning Best Picture movie with an eye towards the leadership lessons that might be drawn from them. It is a great way to honor the Oscars, rewatch some great old movies and garner some interesting perspectives on leadership. We continue that tradition as we are back with more leadership lessons from Oscar-winning Best Picture movies and today’s offering is the 1981 film Chariots of Fire.

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We continue our look at Oscar-winning Best Pictures and consider the leadership lessons we can glean from our viewing. In this episode, Richard Lummis and I take at the 1987 Best Picture winning film, The Last Emperor. Some of the highlights were: This was the first movie shot in the Forbidden City; How does one lead in an era or region of different values and different cultures? Are the trappings of your power as a business leader only that, mere trappings? If so what does this mean? How does your company do business outside the US? and Why does even the best leader sometimes need to bring in an outside expert to assist?

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In this episode of Popcorn and Compliance, Richard Lummis and Tom Fox take at the 2007 Best Picture-winning film, No Country for Old Men. Some of the highlights were: (1) One of the key themes of the movie is the tension between destiny and self-determination; (2) What have been the changes in law enforcement in the former wild west? (3) What does enforcing laws on the former frontier mean? (4) Crime has changed and become more sophisticated. The regulator and enforcers must also change, and (5) What happens when a hero or business leader grows old?

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