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27 Leadership Quotes And Lessons From The Avengers Movie

The Avengers is an absolutely amazing movie! Movie favorites Iron Man, The Hulk, Thor, Captain America, along with Black Widow and Hawkeye, are forced to join forces to battle the evil Loki, played by Tom Hiddleston. Loki and his alien forces who have stolen a device called the tesseract which gives its owner unlimited power.  In our heroes’ effort to save the […]

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9 Leadership Quotes and Lessons From Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol

I love the Mission Impossible series.  They are absolutely fun, full of special effects and action, plenty of stuff blows up, basically implausible, and just plain entertaining.  The fourth installment of the Tom Cruise series, Ghost Protocol, is no exception.  With the dvd being released this Tuesday, I wanted to re-visit my thoughts on the film […]

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16 Leadership Lessons And Thoughts From The Help

I have known dozens of individuals in my lifetime who were overt racists. Last night my wife, daughter, and I finally saw the Academy Award nominated movie The Help.  I am embarrassed to say that it took me this long to see it.  The film is absolutely amazing but at the same time gut-wrenching.  How did this movie not win Best Picture? […]

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11 Leadership Quotes And Principles From October Baby

“You saw me before I was born.” Psalm 139:16 (NLT) Today I chose to October Baby over Hunger Games and I am glad I did!  October Baby is an incredibly moving story that tells us the importance that every human life has.  This film by Jon and Andrew Erwin follows the story of a college student named […]

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How I Feel About Declining Churches

Very rarely do movies affect me deeply.  You know, I’m a guy.  “Let’s blow stuff up for two hours and then move on” I say!  However, I cannot get the movie Moneyball out of my mind.  I sat riveted this past weekend watching Billy Beane, played by Brad Pitt, and Peter Brand, played by Jonah Hill, turn […]

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26 Leadership Quotes And Principles From Moneyball

I just watched the incredible Moneyball which was released on dvd on January 10th.  It is the true story of Oakland A’s GM Billy Beane, played by Brad Pitt, and his completely out-of-the-box approach to building a championship team on a shoestring budget.  Beane changed the way the game is evaluated and played.  It is time for […]

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FREE Ebook: The 2011 Year In Hollywood Movies – Leadership Edition

Today I am honored to release my first eBook – The 2011 Year In Movies – Leadership Edition.  Leaders see leadership in everything.  Therefore, my goal for this resource is not only to entertain you with my thoughts from last year’s films, but also provide a different perspective or grid in which you will view movies […]

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