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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