Lessons from the movies......

A good friend and I used to used to use lines from movies and TV shows to make points about businesses and how they were poorly operated.  It was fun to us to look from the outside in and we often made suggestions to people in businesses that were well meaning ways of improving their service.
We worked together on a few different ventures and had some fun and success.
One of our favourite movie lines was from the original Planet of The Apes, it was when Charlton Heston's character looked around at the apes in the field and said:
 "If this is the best they've got around here, in six months we'll be running this planet."
We used to use this line when we saw a place with great potential that was lacking and we would laugh about it.
It was a little arrogant on our part and on Charlton Heston's part to it turned out, but we believed we had the vision to at least try.
I still sometimes think that when I see a place with great potential, I try to be less arrogant but I can't help but chuckle a little when I say it!