The Oscars 2024 | From Barbie's Ken to Oppenheimer - what does this years' ceremony teach us about HR?

The Oscars 2024 was an event to behold.

Unsurprisingly, Christopher Nolan's epic atomic bomb movie Oppenheimer nabbed the most awards, whilst the most talked about performance wasn't from your usual pop star, but from Ryan Gosling as Barbie's Ken.

Beyond all the glitz and glamour, a few lessons can be learned about navigating the corporate world and people management...

We can learn from the past

Oscar frontrunners from this year Oppenheimer and Killers of the Flower Moon show us a moment in history, through the eyes of its directors. Oppenheimer is the story of the team of scientists who developed and designed the atomic bomb, whilst Killers of the Flower Moon tells the story of murders within the Osage Nation, a native American tribe.