Here are a couple of ways that I mapped strategy to the Godfather.
1. The Corleone family, when treated as an organisation, experiences troughs and peaks which can be explained by the change in leadership from Vito to Sony to Micheal.
2. The Corleone family is like a defender on the lines of an IBM or Apple and Sollozzo, the drug dealer is like a defender on the lines of a new startup.
3. Vito's falling ill and then the downfall of the family is closely compared to Apple's downfall at the time of Steve Job's illness.
4. The story is filled with complexity of plot and characters, with the political connections of the family being its core competency and sustainability being its mission.
All in all, it was fun reading the book and watching the movie to prepare for the examination and it turned out to be an equally good teacher of strategy to top off the fun. The course being the only strategy course that I picked up, was one that I thoroughly enjoyed.
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