I have an autographed picture of Pat Morita as Mr. Miyagi that I hang behind my desk. I use Mr. Miyagi as a management / teaching tool.
Pretty much anyone who's ever worked for me has seen the original Karate Kid. I walk them through the whole training / chores scenario, "Remember when Mr. Miyagi made Danielsan wax the cars, sand the deck, paint the fence? Daniel got all mad because he thought Mr. Miyagi was being a dick and just was getting a kick out of making him do bullshit work and wasting his time... But then it turned out that he was making him do it so he would learn the basics of karate and be able to defend himself..." etc etc
The point being if I tell you to do something a certain way- even if you don't understand why- there's a fucking reason behind it.
