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A Lesson from Oceans 11

By a worker in Africa

Have you seen the movie Oceans 11? Remember how Danny Ocean and his team tricked Terry Benedict by creating a duplicate of the Bellagio casino vault and rewired the security cameras to only see the copy? The security crew saw a calm and still vault and had no idea that behind the false scene there was a lot of action going on—Ocean’s team was actually stealing all the casino’s money.

Lately I’ve learned that understanding that movie scene is crucial in missions work. Continue reading