"Why read the book when you could just watch the movie?" is the advice offered by four Italian management consultants in their new book Cinema for Managers. According to BBC News, "the four consultants...say that executives learn little from books":
High-quality films, though, can offer lessons about problem-solving and teamwork as well as focusing on issues such as globalisation and diversity, Mr Bogliari said.
Among the films offered up as fodder for executive enlightenment is Steven Spielberg's The Terminal, a film "whose cheap pathos suggests a bad Chaplin imitation," according to one review. If it's all the same, we'll just stick to the printed page for now.
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