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A thriller to learn how to negotiate effectively!
Directed by Spike Lee - 2006 - USA - 129 min

Inside Man

2023 October 10 | by Arduino Mancini Boss and Staff member - Cryme and Thriller - Leadership - Negotiation - Stratagems - Teamwork

The film is set in New York and tells the story of five robbers who enter the main branch of a large and prestigious bank, Manhattan Trust, owned and chaired by powerful businessperson Arthur Case. During the robbery, employees and customers are deprived of any personal belongings and forced to wear suits identical to those […]

A film that will help you understand the meaning of coaching
Directed by Tom Hooper – 2010 – UK, Australia – 111 min

The King's Speech

2023 September 27 | by Arduino Mancini Asking questions - Coaching - Leadership - Listening effectively - Motivation

The film is based on the story of King George VI and his relationship with speech therapist Lionel Logue, who helped him manage his stutter, thus enabling him to cope without much hassle with the obligations the role imposed on him. Now a bit of plot. In 1925, Prince Albert, Duke of York and second […]

When a bad teacher plays the role of a charismatic leader
Directed by Dennis Gansel - 2008 - Germany - 101 min

The Wave

2023 July 12 | by Arduino Mancini Critical thinking - Leadership - Politics

Rainer Wenger, a physical education teacher with a past as an anarchist, involves his high school students in an experiment to explain to them the concept of autocracy. For a week they must respond to Herr Wenger’s strict disciplinary system, conform to a dress code, and work together as a hierarchical body, isolating or repressing any […]

WHEN SPORT HELPS POLITICS TO UNIFY A NATION
Directed by Clint Eastwood - 2009 - USA - 133 min

Invictus

2023 June 21 | by Arduino Mancini Leadership - Motivation - Performance - Politics

The film focuses on the events that took place in 1995, when the Rugby World Cup was held in South Africa, and stems from an adaptation of John Carlin’s novel Playing the Enemy – Nelson Mandela and the Game that Made a Nation. The time the country is going through is very delicate. Nelson Mandela […]

A film that shows the use of all types of closed questions
Directed by Rob Reiner, 1992, USA, 138 min

A Few Good Men

2023 May 24 | by Arduino Mancini Asking questions - Boss and Staff member - Critical thinking - Leadership

A U.S. soldier dies at the U.S. military base in Guantanamo, Cuba, and two of his fellow soldiers are charged with murder, found guilty of killing him in inflicting exemplary punishment. A panel of lawyers led by Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee is formed to defend them, and he soon realizes that the death of Soldier William […]

When values, friendship and couple life serve personal power
Directed by George Clooney - 2011 - USA - 101 min

The Ides of March

2023 April 26 | by Arduino Mancini Boss and Staff member - Conflict - Cryme and Thriller - Leadership - Politics - Stratagems

The protagonist of the film (from the book Farragut North, by Beau Willimon) is Stephen Meyers, a young and ambitious press secretary who manages media relations in Mike Morris’ campaign for U.S. President; Mike, a Democrat and Governor of Pennsylvania is opposed in the primary to Arkansas Senator Ted Pullman. The competition is very uncertain […]

What happens in the kitchen of a 3-star Michelin restaurant?
Directed by John Wells - USA - 2015 - 101 min

Burnt

2023 April 05 | by Arduino Mancini Coaching - Leadership - Resilience - Teamwork

The film tells the story of Adam Jones, a two-Michelin-starred chef who, until three years earlier, had been booming in Paris and had to give it all up because of his alcohol and drug habit. After spending three years in New Orleans filling second-rate roles in the kitchen (he left town after shucking a million […]

A genuine team-building training course
Directed by Robert Aldrich - 1967 - USA - 145 min

The Dirty Dozen

2023 February 23 | by Arduino Mancini Leadership - Motivation - Teamwork - War

Have you ever wondered what strategy you can employ to build a team and keep it united? How to convince a group of people, even quite different from each other, to work as one? This film will help you answer these and other difficult questions! In 1944, on the eve of the Normandy invasion by […]

A story of business and women's leadership
Directed by Nigel Cole – 2003 – UK – 108 min

Calendar Girls

2022 September 07 | by Arduino Mancini Leadership - Restructuring communication - Women's Stories

How much can sell a 50-year-old women’s calendar? The answer is: enough to make a business beyond expectation. Listen to the story. The film takes place in Knapely, a small town in Yorkshire, UK, where a group of housewives are engaged in various activities through the local branch of a nationally significant women’s association. The […]

Leadership according to Winston Churchill
Directed by Joe Wright - 2017 - UK - 114 min

Darkest Hour

2021 August 03 | by Arduino Mancini Conflict - Critical thinking - Leadership - Resilience - War

Plot How does a person feel when he or she is responsible for the future of many people and is alone in facing a desperate situation? How can the same person maintain a clear view of the facts when everyone around him or her seems to have lost their mind? The film I’m presenting will […]