How To Lead When You Have No Authority
Everyone remembers the 2002 movie, My Big Fat Greek Wedding. It’s a hilarious story about the struggles of Toula (the daughter of a traditional Greek family) as she tries to fall in love and get married. There is one particular scene where Toula asks her father permission to go to college….
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