During September's Social Summit, Padres President Mike Dee confessed that he'd never seen Star Wars. It's really time for him to rectify that situation, and not just because The Force Awakens hits theaters this Friday. There are valuable lessons the franchise could learn from even the worst of the six films.
Defense matters
The Empire built the Death Star to be, in the words of Admiral Motti, "the ultimate power in the universe." But they focused so much on the offensive power of their technological terror that they left a womp rat-sized hole in their defenses that let one kid from the sticks destroy it in a single blow.