Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was a strange movie. Charlie berates his grandfather for giving him money the old guy is supposed to spend on tobacco. On the bad acid trip of a boat ride, there’s footage of a chicken getting its head chopped off. And what’s up with Wonka not really caring if kids get killed in his factory?

Still, as warped as they may be, there are lessons to be taken from the 1971 film. In my latest Forbes column, I hit 10 takeaways from the classic-yet-distrubing Gene Wilder movie about a CEO who’s got an executive succession problem.