Entrepreneurs say they have learned much about leadership from the movies! “Films beg to be interpreted and discussed,” says one leadership consultant, “and from those discussions businesspeople come up with principles for their own jobs.”

A recent survey of small company CEOs by Inc.

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resulted in the following list of the best movies for leadership lessons: Apollo 13 (1995), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Dead Poets Society (1989), Elizabeth (1998), Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), It’s a Wonderful Life (1946), Norma Rae (1979), One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest

(1975), Twelve Angry Men (1957), and Twelve O’Clock High (1949). Rent one of these films and watch it with a group of your classmates. After viewing the movie, discuss the leadership lessons you learned from it and report the results to the other members of your class. o-987