Comments on: 10 Lessons Frank Miller’s 300 can teach you about Successful Online Business

By: bittenbydesign

bittenbydesign — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 00:23:26 +0000

Honestly, this version is WAY better than the old black and white 300 spartans movie.

But I did find the business insights from the movie interesting. Nice work!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 23:48:30 +0000

Great article! Business often times can be very similar to war. I especially like the one about even a god-man (ie big corporation) can bleed. This post inspired me to write a similar one focused on seven lessons for self-improvement from the movie:

http://www.yangtown.com/inner-game/7-ways-to-be-a-hero-from-the-movie-300/

Cheers,

Ryan

By: shaz

shaz — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 06:01:44 +0000

great stuff and a truley great film

By: cin77

cin77 — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 22:09:18 +0000

I think I agree with the article, I liked #4 especially. We have to constantly challenge authorize, and constantly question ourselves if we are doing the right thing.

By: hmmmm

hmmmm — Mon, 28 May 2007 17:59:30 +0000

Well. these are bullshits!

By: Big Z

Big Z — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 08:33:37 +0000

The points you make are both good parallels and humorous in and of themselves. Frank Miller’s novel is a bunch of bull, however. It is very amusing how people say it is “a true story” like it is an accurate historical accounting. In fact, Leonides had roughly an army of 6000 (not 300) who faced an army of a little over 10,000 (not a million, even by Rosie O’Donnells poor counting skills). The original fight began when the Grecians invaded the Persian territory and burned a major city. Burning Athens was meant to be payback.
I also noticed the bigotry that was ingrained into the movie. Spartans were these plucky, Chippindale dancers with Dores and Xiphos to look like the mighty soldiers. They were rough and tumble but had pearly white straight teeth that would have made any mordern day orthodontist proud. The Persians were portrayed as minorities (the African that was thrown down the well), freaks and monsters, and the very sexually confused eunuchoid cross-dresser that was supposed to be Emperor Xerxes. The obvious disdain for the Persian people was oozing from the screen.
As a fantasy movie, it was amusing. Historic? I think not.
Internet parallels–I can buy that–afterall, a lot about the Internet is to be taken with a grain of salt:)

By: Mark Raratonga

Mark Raratonga — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:11:05 +0000

I think instead of having “Never Retreat”, a more appropriate one to tie in with business and the movie would be “Remind Yourself of Your Longterm Goals and Be in it for the Long-Run”. In the movie, King Leonidas kept reminding his company of Sparta’s values and how they could lose their homeland.

Now, if you tie this in with business it suits a lot better. It helps avoid chasing your losses and it reminds us that we need to keep atop our strategic focus.

By: Motorcycle Guy

Motorcycle Guy — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 19:57:13 +0000

#12 when reporting your enemies paid links to google make sure to yell out “This is for sparta”!

By: persian

persian — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 20:33:26 +0000

I think you must be aware of these ten lesson because business is not made in Hollywood and these ten lessons will make you a legend not a microsoft

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