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Everything I learned about business I learned at the movies: selling the bottom-feeder way

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

I get two or three broker calls per month trying to sell me stock. If you’re successful as an entrepreneur, your phone will be ringing off the hook two or three times a week from broker “chop shops.” So you might want to check out the new blog, They Madoff With Your Money, dedicated to [...]

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I learned everything about business from the movies: You just got punk’d by Idi Amin

Monday, January 5th, 2009

Why plod around piles of management books when you can watch a good movie? Need an MBA? Join Netflix, dude.
So spot the “management problem’ in this clip from The Last King of Scotland:

The Last King of Scotland is about a fictional young Scottish physician, Nicholas, who serves as Ugandan strongman Idi Amin’s personal physician and [...]

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