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Movies every business person should watch #07 Office Space
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This 1999 comedy features Ron Livingston who acts as Peter Gibbons a very unmotivated IT staff working with a tech company providing solutions on the 2000 switch for a number of clients. His supervisor Bill Lumbergh acted by Gary Cole is as stressful as bosses get. After a job evaluation by a team of consultants…

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Movies every business person should watch #08 Barbarians at the Gate
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Corporate Take Overs through LBOs Based on a true story that saw the rise to prominence for one of wall street top ballers Henry Kravis through popularizing the concept of Leveraged Boy-Out (LBO) where top investors borrow money to purchase an existing firm, work on operational efficiencies and selling it thereby making a killing. The…

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Movies every business person should watch #09 Boiler Room
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Boiler Room features Giovanni Ribisi as Seth Davis, a son of a judge who channels his tuition money into a business venture to form a casino and one evening is introduced to the world of gambling BIG on wall street through a firm known as JT Marlin where he meets a number of big names…

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Movies every business person should watch #10 In Good Company
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This movie show cases an acquisition of one firm by another and head of sales for the acquired firm Dan Foreman being put in a position to report to a less experienced new boss Carter Duryea appointed by the acquiring firm who unbeknownst to him is dating his daughter who Dennis is struggling to push…

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Movies every business person should watch #11 The Pursuit of Happyness
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The story of Chris Gardner a salesman who is struggling to bridge the gap between his commissions and the actual demands of his daily life something which impacts excessive pressure that sees him losing his marriage. His sales experience teaches him swiftness and at one time he runs out of taxi cab to avoid paying…

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Movies every business person should watch #12 Rogue Trader
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In one of the biggest downfalls of a huge bank, my namesake Nick Leeson acted by Ewan McGregor tells of a story of a key securities trader on the Singapore SIMEX exchange and just like most derivative traders a lot of gambling leads to building up huge losses as they are hidden from the eyes…

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Movies every business person should watch #13 The Intern
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https://lutakome.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/the-intern.mp4 This wonderful piece by Nancy Meyers brings out the real meaning of work as a calling rather than it being a battle This movie blends the old and the new Anne Hathaway who runs an online business linking up with the legendary Robert De Niro who joins her firm as an adult intern after…

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Movies every business person should watch #14 Up in the air
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In every crisis there are those who derive opportunity and just like during this period of lockdown, a number of employers are either downsizing or laying off the entire workforce and this movie brings out the subtle display of outsourced skills by George Clooney in making a job lay-off appear like an opening of a…

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Movies every Businessperson should watch #15 The Crooked E
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The weekend is here again and for those of you who take time to relax during weekends watching a movie is not a bad pastime This is the beginning of my 15 Movie series that I think every business person should watch. Number 15 : The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron “Irrational exuberance”…

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4 Must have Insurance Policies for every Business for COVID 19 Lock down & Aftermath
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For many businesses, this year is about survival, and in the aftermath of the lock-down, an insurance check has to be done against the number of insurance policies in place to ensure that money is not spend on unnecessary expenses following occurrence of the following unforeseen incidents The list below is not at all exhaustive,…

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