ABSTRACT

One of my favorite movies of all time is It’s a Wonderful Life. A scene that still resonates with business today is when Mr. Potter offers George Bailey a high-paying job. George is amazed and flattered with the offer, considering how much more money and prestige it will bring him, until he shakes Potter’s hand; he can feel it isn’t right, rubs his fingers together as though he’s feeling the oily residue that has rubbed off of Potter’s unethical soul onto his hand, and you can see on his face that he realizes he is being manipulated by Potter, the “scurvy little spider.”