Day: October 1, 2022

I have always loved the classic Universal monster movies from the 1930s. I am exploring one movie each week to mine it for leadership and compliance lessons this month. 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 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.