A Few Good Men Discussion Questions

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This movie is set at the Headquarters of Google in California. The movie begins with two men, Billy McMahon and Nick Campbell who are the two main characters. These two men are salesmen who sell watches. Their company closes down because their boss, Sam, believes that watches are out-dated since people would rather check the time on their phones.
Billy begins to look for a new job on his laptop. When he is on Google’s home page, an idea comes to his mind. Nick, in the mean time, starts working for his sisters boyfriend. While Nick is working, Billy comes and tells him that he has arranged and interview with Google for an internship for both of them and Nick quits his job.
After the video interview, Lyle believes
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Billy and Nick show excellent leadership qualities when they motivate and inspire the team members by telling them to believe in themselves even though they are losing. Billy tells the team to believe in each other, showing the importance of team work in getting the best possible results. Management skills are also shown by Billy in this scene, as team work is very important and shows management competency. A good manager is always aware of team members’ feelings, which Billy was aware of. Billy could see that the team was feeling discouraged and he did all he could to help them to believe in themselves and each other as a team. After his team lost, Billy tells everyone that they did their best and that it was a first time that they all came together as a team.
In the sports challenge, we see that Graham does not show leadership skills. Graham hurts Zach physically so that he cannot participate anymore and calls him degrading names such as fat face, as Graham felt that Zach was losing the game for their team. This shows us that Graham is not a good leader and does not have good leadership qualities as he did not inspire Zach to try do better, instead he discouraged him and did not help him to believe in himself. Instead, Graham should have encouraged Zach to try harder and helped him to do better, instead of acting like a playground
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Lyle, who is drunk, is about to send Marielena a message which he will most certainly regret once he is sober. Nick used original and creative thinking to suggest that for the app challenge, they create an app where if you are drunk, you have to answer a quiz question before being able to send a message which you will regret in the morning. Nick used Lyles experience to come up with an innovative idea which many young people will make use of. Nick used creative thinking by knowing who the target market of these apps will be and using that to transform and experience into an

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