Is it Time to “Argo” Your Sales Team?
leadershipteam
Thu, 07/25/2019 – 12:27
Authored by:
Colleen Stanley
“Argo” is the 2012 movie about a high-stakes rescue of six U.S. diplomats from Tehran during the Iran hostage crisis. Ben Affleck stars as CIA operative Tony Mendez, who is charged with getting these diplomats out of the country safely.
They do so by pretending to be film crew members making a science fiction movie. There is a compelling scene where Mendez is quizzing – well, drilling — the diplomats about their new personas. He asks rapid-fire questions about their birthdays, where they grew up and details of the science fiction film. His goal: Put them under extreme pressure to see if the can recall the information, regardless of the situation.
This was a different type of role playing, one where your life depended on your
