![]() ![]() Volunteers where no one else wants to and gets the job done. Or a project that is just waiting for a leader. At some point we're all faced with a problem that might not really be ours to solve. That's just my game."Īt first blush, it might seem like #3 and #1 are saying the same thing, but if being in your prime means having a strong will, this one is about being willing. Holliday steps from the shadows and tells Ringo: He wants to know if anyone has the guts to take him on. He's looking for a fight - for blood as a matter of fact. In one of the most quoted scenes, Ringo issues a challenge. ![]() It speaks to doing work for a reason and staying on a path toward a goal. If you truly do what you do, there's no passing the time or just doing this until something better comes along. It also says something to me about purpose. Whatever you're doing, whatever your job or assignment, do it all the way. It's simple and powerful: Do what you do. This happens to be one of my favorites for what it says about commitment. The literal translation of this Latin proverb is "do what you do." Ringo means it as an insult, telling Holliday that being past his prime, drinking is what he does best. It comes from the same exchange, but from Johnny Ringo, not Doc Holliday. I'm taking a little license with this one. Johnny Ringo isn't going to tell him that he's retired and if he has to go through him to prove it, that's exactly what he'll do. The refusal to back down from any obstacle that all good leaders have. But then Johnny asks if he's retired and Holliday stands straight, looks Ringo fully in the eyes and says:Įveryone knows that Doc is not in his physical prime as he's been drinking and is battling tuberculosis. Our first close up of Doc shows him pale and sweaty, barely able to open his red-rimmed eyes or lift his head as he coughs. In a scene so good it gives us two of our five, Doc is confronted at the faro table by Johnny Ringo. If you're like me, you believe that Kurt Russell telling that cur Ike Clanton to deliver his famous warning is enough to make the movie a solid 7.5 on its own, but Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday turns the film up to eleven.īut, this isn't a movie blog and LinkedIn won't let me publish a film review so I'm going to tell you five things I learned about leadership from Val Kilmer and Doc Holiday on a late Saturday night over a holiday weekend. Against the backdrop of Tombstone, Arizona we're presented with gamblers, gunslingers, law men, and mustaches (all real according to the film's director.) Supposedly all of the shots of lightning in the film are real too, but that's not nearly as impressive as the mustaches. Corral and the ensuing Earp Vendetta Ride that's really a tender love story at heart. It's a classic retelling of the gunfight at the O.K. I happen to fall into the former group so I was pretty wound-up to run across it one late night over the 4th of July weekend*. The world is divided into two groups of people: those who love the movie Tombstone and those who won't admit it. ![]()
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