SESSION 22 | ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP - AN EXAMPLE

Today, we will watch together the second half of a movie about leadership and organizational challenges.

You might want to compare the events in the movie with another movie made about real events.

back to top

Pay attention to the decisions the leader is making and decide if he is acting in the best interests of the organization.

leadership in context

A blog posting from a previous class includes links to various takeaways from this movie. After you have seen the movie, look at them and ask yourself if these were the lessons you drew from the movie.

Note that the leadership deliverable includes a section on lessons learned from the movie. Don't use the lessons in the blog links unless those were truly the lessons you learned. If you use them, explain why you saw it this way, in your own words.

back to top

Things to think about

Some background to the movie may be of interest.

back to top

after a short introduction, the majority of our time will be taken up with the second half of the movie

• watch how the characters interact with each other
• sense the organizational imperatives at work in this story
• is every character just being himself, or are some of them knowingly playing a role?
• can you see yourself in this situation? If so, who might you think you would be?

back to top

something to take away

Bassology

Willie Dixon and a comment about him in Last.fm

Willie Dixon (born July 1, 1915, Vicksburg, Miss., U.S.-died Jan. 29, 1992, Burbank, Calif.) was a U.S. musician who influenced the emergence of electric blues and rock music. In 1936 Dixon moved from his native Mississippi to Chicago, won an Illinois Golden Gloves boxing championship, and began selling his songs. He played double bass in several bands before joining Chess Records. His lively compositions, which he sold for as little as $30, included "Little Red Rooster," "You Shook Me," and "Back Door Man"; many were later recorded by Muddy Waters, Elvis Presley, and the Rolling Stones. Dixon toured widely throughout the U.S. and Europe.