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Business Lessons Hidden in the Dialogue of The Godfather

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns. - Tom Hagen

Few films are quoted as often as The Godfather, and fewer still are quoted with such misplaced nostalgia. What is usually treated as cinematic bravado is, on closer inspection, a dense manual on POWER, incentives, temperament, negotiation, and organizational design. Stri…