Francine Lasky

I bet you can name 10 movies about damaged, highly successful male leaders: Steve Jobs (Ashton Kutcher), Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg), Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton), etc. How many women do we see on screen as less-than-textbook leaders? Um, ones that win in the end?

The life-sized cutout of Mr. Spock in my Star-Trek themed Denver hotel room focused his logical stare at me as I hung up with my brother.  He had just given me his blessing to leave the family business I had helped build for the last 25 years and led for the last six.