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.
Tag: Leadership
Richard Lummis and Tom Fox are back to continue our series of exploring leadership through the study of US Presidents. This episode continues our series on Gilded Age Presidents, now largely forgotten. In this episode, we take up James Garfield. Some of the highlights include:
- Educational and Professional Background.
- History as Radical Republican.
- Crédit Mobilier scandal of 1872.
- Nomination and Election of 1880.
- Presidency including the Tariff, Purging of the Post Office, Supreme Court Nominations, Proposals for universal education, and Assassination.
- Leadership Issues, including the importance of strong ethics, a strong believer in education, and Goldbug-a man for his times?
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.
Richard Lummis and Tom Fox are back to continue our series of exploring leadership through the study of US Presidents. This episode begins a short series on Gilded Age Presidents, now largely forgotten. In this episode we take up James Garfield.Some of the highlights include:
- Educational and Professional Background.
- History as Radical Republican.
- Crédit Mobilier scandal of 1872.
- Nomination and Election of 1880.
- Presidency including the Tariff, Purging the Post Office, Supreme Court Nominations, Proposal for universal education and Assassination.
- Leadership Issues including the importance of strong ethics, a strong believer in education and Goldbug-a man for his times?
Richard Lummis and Tom Fox continue exploring leadership through the study of US Presidents. This episode begins a short series on Gilded Age Presidents, now largely forgotten. In this episode, we take up Chester A. Arthur. Some of the highlights include:
- Educational and Professional Background of Chester A. Arthur.
- His time as a New York politician, including work in the Conkling Political Machine and as Head of Customs House and conflict with President Hays.
- His Stalwart Candidacy as Vice President.
- His election and short tenure as VP.
- Leadership issues from his Presidency, including the confusion on how to take office, his enactment of Civil Service reform, his work on the surplus budget and the tariff, immigration issues, and Civil Rights in the South.Leadership Issues, including (a) What are your expectations? (b) How much does a leader’s health matter? (c) Arthur adopted a code for his political behavior but was subjected to three restraints: he remained to everyone a man of his word; he kept scrupulously free from corrupt graft; he maintained a personal dignity, affable and genial though he might be.
In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News:
- Kraken CEO, who attacked his employees, steps down. (NYT)
- Citigroup offers a work-life balance at half pay. (FT)
- Canadian company faces corruption charges under CFPOA. (RCMP Press Release)
- Disgraced Suns owner to sell the team. (Bloomberg)
Richard Lummis and Tom Fox continue our series of exploring leadership through the study of US Presidents. This episode begins a short series on Gilded Age Presidents, now largely forgotten. In this episode, we take up Chester A. Arthur. Some of the highlights include:
- Educational and Professional Background of Chester A. Arthur.
- His time as a New York politician, including work in the Conkling Political Machine and as Head of Customs House and conflict with President Hays.
- His Stalwart Candidacy as Vice President.
- His election and short tenure as VP.
- Leadership issues from his Presidency, including the confusion on how to take office, his enactment of Civil Service reform, his work on the surplus budget and the tariff, immigration issues, and Civil Rights in the South.Leadership Issues, including (a) What are your expectations? (b) How much does a leader’s health matter? (c) Arthur adopted a code for his political behavior but was subjected to three restraints: he remained to everyone a man of his word; he kept scrupulously free from corrupt graft; he maintained a personal dignity, affable and genial though he might be.
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.
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?
