The Big Picture: Essential Business Lessons from the Movies

by Michael Sansolo and Kevin Coupe

Book Overview

Get out the popcorn. It's time to enjoy your favorite movies ... with a business twist. "The Big Picture: Essential Business Lessons from the Movies" shows you how the stories in movies can inspire... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0971154287
• ISBN13: 9780971154285
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Raphel Marketing.
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

The Big Picture: Essential Business Lessons from the Movies

What a great read, not just to enjoy brief reviews of movies but also to have a correlation to a busines use. It is a quick and enjoyable read, especially if you enjoy the movies. The challenge can be in letting yourself build off of each business lesson you read and determine if you completely agree or have something you would have enhanced. That very possibility leads to the potential of using this for business discussions. I think Michael and Kevin were right on with their points and many were very timely in todays business environment. The additional value is that not every movie was a critical classic but each clearly had a business lesson that you may be able to use to make a point in a future discussion. As an example, Tin Cup is a favorite of mine but probably not critically acclaimed as a great movie. There are several great points in this movie you could draw on and the one they pulled was right on. Enjoy the book for the easy read that it is but plan to use it to enhance a business point at some time in the future, this may be it's greatest value.

A Double Barreled Winner!

Kevin Coupe and Michael Sansolo have come up with a unique, informative, clever, and very entertaining book - THE BIG PICTURE: ESSENTIAL BUSINESS LESSONS FROM THE MOVIES. The writing style is fluid, the chosen format of very brief 'chapters' is breezy and user-friendly, and while the mission of this book is to share ideas on how to improve the workplace both from the vantage of the worker and the executive leadership by the clever manner of relating topics to well known movies and their lead ideas, the bonus here is excellent mini-reviews or summations of films as entertaining as any published in the media. Each brief chapter, hallmarked by the graphic of a director's chair bearing the name of which of the two authors is writing, is assigned an idea, lists the reference movies at the top of the page, and 'rates' the topic much the way movies are rated in the ads in the media. Example: Michael 'directs' a chapter discussion of 'Find a Role Model', the reference movies being GANDHI (1982) and SCHINDLER'S LIST (1993), and the box of ratings lists RB (Rule Breakers), E (Ethics), L (Leadership) - Suggested for all business audiences. The following discussion describes the lives of Gandhi and Schindler and uses these men as guideposts for why they were role models worth emulating in the workplace. At the end of the brief discussion written by Michael (excellent plot summations of these two films!), Kevin provides his retort (Kevin POV = Kevin's Point of View) ending with the message "You don't have to be Gandhi or Schindler. Sometimes you just have to be a business executive who wants to do the right thing.' Topics related via movie comparisons include 'Be the Customer" (BIG), 'Take a New Perspective' (WORKING GIRL), 'Allow for the Possibility that You're Wrong' (SEX AND THE CITY), 'Vision Trumps All' (THE PRODUCERS) - and so many more, but you get the 'picture...'. Buy this book as a movie buff, buy this book as a creative working person, or just buy it because of the clever information it contains. Grady Harp, February 10

A great idea!

Does art imitate life or does life imitate art? This book is for anyone who has ever looked at a situation and thought "It's just like that movie..." What a great idea to catalog all of these moments that we know so well and put them into a form that we can apply to our own lives.

great read

What a great read. Who doesn't use phrases from movies in every day conversations and now Coupe and Sansolo relate them to business applications. Like a slap to the forehead this book brings a new relationship to movies and business in a fun, useful, and entertaining way.

Wisdom that is both practical and entertaining

I used to devour even the most academic of business books, but lately have been drawn to less linear publications -- perhaps to balance the complexity of the economic climate, or because I've trained myself to read that way online. The Big Picture is a wonderful antidote whether you're looking to read your first business book, or have a stack of them that you haven't gotten around to yet. It contains memorable, actionable wisdom I've applied to my own work and used to communicate more effectively in times of change. The writers are witty, which makes the reading enjoyable whether you're in the office, airport, or beach cabana.