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Hold on to your butts!

“Hold onto your butts.” First of all, it should be said that Jurassic Park is my favourite movie, of all time, bar none. Why? It’s got everything. Relationship building, action, adventure, humour and it has freakin' dinosaurs!  But I digress. One of the biggest takeaways from this movie, leadership-wise, is that we can too heavily dependent on one person.  Sam Jackson’s character in the movie says “I can't get Jurassic Park back online without Dennis Nedry.” And that's when everything hits the fan. The fences are down, the man-eating raptors are out, Lex and Tim are out in the park with raging beasts, Malcolm has been tossed by a t-rex, and the tour has taken on some serious casualties. Not to mention the extensive damage to the vehicles on site which were top of the line - they spared no expense. Plus, a guy gets eaten while sitting on the toilet.  Not a way anyone wants to go.   So what could have saved them from this ill fate?  Other people knowing how t

“Use the Force Luke!”

So far this blog has been based solely on Finding Nemo quotes, which in itself is awesome.  But while on the computer dealing with a technical issue I suddenly realized that at that moment I was channelling my inner ‘Anger’, like from the movie Inside Out and I thought, it’s not just finding Nemo that gives us amazing leadership lessons!  There are tons of them out there. So today I am expanding my scope.  So to start off.. let's go with the first Star Wars.  No, I don’t mean the newer one with that Jar Jar Binks guy, I mean the original.  If any of you were like me, the first time we met Luke we were wondering “how is this whiny guy going to do anything to save the universe?”  I mean really, his line  "But I was going into Tosche Station to pick up some power converters!" That line alone made it hard to have much faith in the guy.  So here is where we get to the leadership lesson in all of this.  And it is one that is pretty good for life too. You can’t judge a