Mentorship (Reflections on the film American Gangster)

Clearly the idea of making my thoughts public on the internet is not very alluring. That of course makes me possibly the worse blogger in the world. Nevertheless, see if you can extract anything of worth from the black drool I will be spilling out below known officially as paragraphs.

If you have read my first post you will know that this blog is designed to document what I am learning in my Entrepreneurial Skills in the Communication Industry class. This my second post is about movies and what they reveal about Entrepreneurship. In class we were placed in groups, then each group was instructed to watch a Movie and identify the principles relevant to Entrepreneurs.

My group reviewed, American Gangster, actor of worth Denzel (I say no more). Anyway, to the point of the post. MENTORSHIP IS A BIG DEAL! To say it another way, get some good advice. This could range from a Board of Advisers to a single person that you can meet with say once a month of more often if time permits. This person or group of persons will help to nudge you in the right direction and provide objectivity since Entrepreneurs especially the young ones often have tunnel vision.

This is not a movie review so I won't say much about the movie except this, with guidance from Bumpy Johnson ( Clarence Williams III) Frank Lucas (Denzel) became the most successful business man in Heroine infested Harlem. Watch the movie and see how he built the brand "Blue Magic" or do like the rest of us and Google it. Whatever you decide to do remember that Mentorship is useful. So who do you know?