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Kinky Boots
2005 · Film · 107 min
Directed by Julian Jarrold
Charles Price may have grown up with his father in the family shoe business in Northampton, central England, but he never thought that he would take his father's place. Charles has a chance encounter with the flamboyant drag queen cabaret singer Lola and everything changes.
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The films "Kinky boots" comes to mind. Something broke inside me when my manufacturing materials lecturer stated "we do not always needs products to last forever so we have the ability to design materials that wear and tear within a defined envelope of usages and time" Looking at my iPhone cable I'm so glad I failed that course.
There are a few (all are based on true story):
- Moneyball
- Good Night, and Good Luck
- Kinky Boots
- Telstar: The Joe Meek Story
- Ek Doctor Ki Maut (a hindi-language movie based on actual events, chronicling the sad state of Indian research scientists in government institutions; the movie is based on the life of an Indian doctor from Kolkata who developed a vaccine for leprosy. The doctor committed suicide, but the movie has changed that)
I second the movie "Kinky Boots" - lots of heart there: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0434124/reviews?ref_=tt_urv
Second Generation. I worked for 12 years in my dads accounting firm and built a custom app for the firm while I was there. Dad couldn’t let go so eventually I knew I had to move on. It was very painful to leave but I left on good terms in the end although it took a while it was worth it.
I’d recommend the book ‘breakthrough companies’, the first concept in the book is the importance of ‘crowning the company’ which separates all successful businesses that outlived their founder/s. Especially relevant in family business.
If your parent does not want to hand over the reigns, and you’ve stayed for loyalty, often it’s very healthy to leave (even just for a while) and reset expectations.
Consider doing a family vision document, the Coopers Family in Australia which is a major brewery and something like 7-8 generation did this earlier and the values defined later helped stop a takeover when some extended family members were open to a major corporate buy-out.
I love arrested development (netflix) couldn’t watch it until a while after I left.. too close!
Nice movie ‘Kinky Boots’ - A drag queen comes to the rescue of a man who, after inheriting his father's shoe factory, needs to diversify his product if he wants to keep the business afloat. Lots of feels for inheriting Gen.
And right there's why this is relevant to HN: I think we just found a niche market that needs to be catered to, folks [1].
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinky_Boots_(film)