From Oppenheimer to AI: Leading high-performance teams

One wonders how the leadership lessons of the Manhattan Project could be applied to current challenges such as the integration of AI and digital technologies into the workplace

Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer. It is clear the Manhattan Project's success was predicated on strong leadership.

In the 2024 blockbuster Oppenheimer, former University College Cork student Cillian Murphy gives an Academy Award-winning performance as Robert J Oppenheimer. 

While the film centres around Murphy as a lone genius surrounded by other brilliant physicists and scientists building the atomic bomb, the reality of the Manhattan Project was slightly different — and offers key insights and learnings around how to lead high-performance teams and getting things done.