SESSION 22 | ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP - AN EXAMPLE

We will watch the movie Twelve O'Clock High together over the next two class periods

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

In the part of the movie we will see today, there is a scene early in it that portrays a dramatic story that sounds almost unbelievable. This is a movie, but it depicts an actual event and actual people.  The movie itself is a very real depiction of real events.

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Things like this happened

When one asks why this circumstance happened, one discovers that there were organizational reasons why it did.

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Things to think about

While the movie is about leadership, a subtle story about organizations is being played out in the background. Think about what the characters are thinking about in terms of their particular situations, as well as in the evolution of the organization itself.

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after a short introduction, the majority of our time will be taken up with the first 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?

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something to take away

The March

Robert Randolph and the Family Band is a multicultural American funk and soul band led by pedal steel guitarist Robert Randolph. The following quote came from a WNYC Gig Alert.

The New Jersey funk and soul jam band Robert Randolph and the Family Band draws on secular and African-American musical traditions from the past century in its eclectic fusion of gospel, blues, and funk. Robert Randolph is an ideal frontman for the band: He is a virtuoso on the upright steel pedal guitar - which is the primary element in the African-American religious music known as "sacred steel".