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  • 1.  Films relevant to a leadership course

    Posted 03-27-2006 04:04
    Colleagues,
     
    Impressed by the volume and quality of responses to Fred's request about change management books, I would like to invite your thoughts on a different (although related) topic.
     
    I am in the early stages of thinking about putting together a course on leadership (and followership) for undergraduate students in their second year of a degree in business and management studies. I want to stimulate discussion by showing them film clips, news archives, tv clips (or even complete films) which illustrate good and bad leadership and leadership dilemmas.
    I would welcome any suggestions about suitable sources of material. As always, I will complile a list of suggestions to post back to the list.
     
    ( I am especially (although not exclusively) interested in material which concerns leadership from unexpected quarters and upward leadership as well as material which suggests some of the pitfalls of charismatic leadership.)
     
    Many thanks for your help
     
    Mark
     

    Prof. Mark Fenton-O'Creevy

    Director, Programmes and Curriculum

    & Professor of Organisational Behaviour
    Open University Business School
    Walton Hall
    Milton Keynes MK7 6AA
    <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United Kingdom</st1:place></st1:country-region>

     

    Curriculum and Programmes e-mail: oubs-dir-pc@open.ac.uk
    personal e-mail: m.p.fenton-ocreevy@open.ac.uk
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  • 2.  Films relevant to a leadership course

    Posted 03-27-2006 05:17
    Re. Mark's posting, I teach a postgraduate module on IS/IT Change Management and completed a 2 year secondment in the area of "film to teach": http://www.mis.coventry.ac.uk/~rajeev/taskforce.htm
     
    As part of my postgrad module, I deliver a lecture in the "normal" way, followed by a case study which is followed by a film clip.
     
    On the topic of leadership, there are 2 decent clips from Dave (Kevin Kline) - asked to double for the President, we see how Dave transforms himself from a manager in one clip to a leader in another (the part where he chairs a meeting - everyone thinks he is the President - he acts like one accordingly).  With these 2 clips, I ask the class whether: (1) If there is evidence of “Kaleidoscope” thinking?, (2) Is there a basic model of change? and (3) Is political support (no pun intended!) developed?
     
    Related (as all these things always are) clips/topics include:
     
    Ocean's Eleven - Danny Ocean explains the nature of the proposed robbery to his team.  Questions: Is there any evidence (actual or implied) of culture shock in the scenes? What elements of a Learning Organisation were seen during the meeting? Were there any commercial oversights during the scenes? Is there evidence of Mess Management and Action Research?
     
    The Devil's Advocate - We see Kevin Lomax (Reeves) being “wooed” by his prospective employer (Pacino).  Questions: Put yourself in Kevin’s position; carry out a quick SWOT analysis.  Looking at Porter, which Primary and Secondary aspects did you see?  Does this behaviour influence your perceptions of organisations (and what may be going on in the background)?
     
    Other "essential films" include: The Godfather (as you might expect!) - in fact, perhaps "The Godfather" trilogy is a ready-made MBA course? :)
     
    I am currently completing a journal paper illustrating the efficacy of the approach with feedback from students - more news on this once it's out in the public domain.
     
    I was looking round for publishers as I felt certain that there was a book in this - someone beat me to it; therefore I would direct interested parties to Joe Champoux's seminal work on "film for education".
     
    My journal article will make clear the importance of energy and enthusiasm on the part of the tutor as well - like any other "selling" job, the more you believe in the ideals, the more likely it is that you will have student buy-in...however, as Harvey Keitel says in Pulp Fiction: "Just because you are a character, doesn't mean you have character"
     
    Look forward to seeing the final list...
     
    Raj Bali
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    Faculty of Engineering and Computing
    Coventry University
    Priory Street
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    ----- Original Message -----
    Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 10:04 AM
    Subject: Films relevant to a leadership course

    Colleagues,
     
    Impressed by the volume and quality of responses to Fred's request about change management books, I would like to invite your thoughts on a different (although related) topic.
     
    I am in the early stages of thinking about putting together a course on leadership (and followership) for undergraduate students in their second year of a degree in business and management studies. I want to stimulate discussion by showing them film clips, news archives, tv clips (or even complete films) which illustrate good and bad leadership and leadership dilemmas.
    I would welcome any suggestions about suitable sources of material. As always, I will complile a list of suggestions to post back to the list.
     
    ( I am especially (although not exclusively) interested in material which concerns leadership from unexpected quarters and upward leadership as well as material which suggests some of the pitfalls of charismatic leadership.)
     
    Many thanks for your help
     
    Mark
     

    Prof. Mark Fenton-O'Creevy

    Director, Programmes and Curriculum

    & Professor of Organisational Behaviour
    Open University Business School
    Walton Hall
    Milton Keynes MK7 6AA
    <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United Kingdom</st1:place></st1:country-region>

     

    Curriculum and Programmes e-mail: oubs-dir-pc@open.ac.uk
    personal e-mail: m.p.fenton-ocreevy@open.ac.uk
    (DL) +44 (0)1908-655804
    Fax: +44 (0)1908-655898
    Web : oubs.open.ac.uk

     

     


  • 3.  Films relevant to a leadership course

    Posted 03-27-2006 05:43
    Dear Mark,
     
    History repeats itself: I posted more or less the same question to the list about 8 years ago...
     
    A few suggestions, some that I have used, others only thought about:
     
        Traditional, military model - 12 O'clock High (Peck's US Air Force Colonel) (for which I have some Instructor's Notes...)
        Non traditional, institutional model - Brubaker (Redford's Prison Governor) (ditto re notes)
        Non-traditional, military model - Guns at Batasi (specifically, Attenborough's RSM)
        Traditional, military 'harassment' model - An Officer & A Gentleman (specifically, Lou Gossett Jnr's "I don't believe my eyes", recruit induction speech) funnier than FMJ
        Over-the-top, military 'harassment' model - Full Metal Jacket and, although I haven't yet seen it, I believe this applies to Jarhead
        Humorous take on military model - Stripes (Bill Murray's squad that teaches themselves the Drill Manual)
        Dark side of leadership, leadership dilemma - Wall Street (Gekko's charismatic 'seduction' of Fox, Fox's astute 'learning' and climb up the ladder at the stockbroking firm, Blue Star crisis, consequence, redemption)
        Leadership upwards - Dangerous Journey, but you won't be able to get it - it was a WW2 era training film which I last saw as a cadet in ?1959?, but there are also elements of this in Attenborough's RSM role.
        Ethical leadership - any of the well-handled product recalls, e.g., the original Tylenol incident: there is a doco about that on video.
        Corporate decision-making in a crisis and its leadership dimension - Blood on the Carpet BBC TV series, especially the hostile takeover one
       
    Cheers,
     
    John Thornton
     

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    Sent: Monday, 27 March 2006 7:34 PM
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    Subject: Films relevant to a leadership course

    Colleagues,
     
    Impressed by the volume and quality of responses to Fred's request about change management books, I would like to invite your thoughts on a different (although related) topic.
     
    I am in the early stages of thinking about putting together a course on leadership (and followership) for undergraduate students in their second year of a degree in business and management studies. I want to stimulate discussion by showing them film clips, news archives, tv clips (or even complete films) which illustrate good and bad leadership and leadership dilemmas.
    I would welcome any suggestions about suitable sources of material. As always, I will complile a list of suggestions to post back to the list.
     
    ( I am especially (although not exclusively) interested in material which concerns leadership from unexpected quarters and upward leadership as well as material which suggests some of the pitfalls of charismatic leadership.)
     
    Many thanks for your help
     
    Mark
     

    Prof. Mark Fenton-O'Creevy

    Director, Programmes and Curriculum

    & Professor of Organisational Behaviour
    Open University Business School
    Walton Hall
    Milton Keynes MK7 6AA
    <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United Kingdom</st1:place></st1:country-region>

     

    Curriculum and Programmes e-mail: oubs-dir-pc@open.ac.uk
    personal e-mail: m.p.fenton-ocreevy@open.ac.uk
    (DL) +44 (0)1908-655804
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    Web : oubs.open.ac.uk

     

     


  • 4.  Films relevant to a leadership course

    Posted 03-27-2006 06:06
    just to start the feedback and in order not to forget an obvious one: 12 angry men from 1957, directed by syd lumet and starring, among others, henry fonda and lee cobb, which for a long time has been used to in leadership education to illustrate different leadership styles and group roles.

    cheers

    wolfgang mayrhofer

    M.P.Fenton-OCreevy schrieb:
    Colleagues,
     
    Impressed by the volume and quality of responses to Fred's request about change management books, I would like to invite your thoughts on a different (although related) topic.
     
    I am in the early stages of thinking about putting together a course on leadership (and followership) for undergraduate students in their second year of a degree in business and management studies. I want to stimulate discussion by showing them film clips, news archives, tv clips (or even complete films) which illustrate good and bad leadership and leadership dilemmas.
    I would welcome any suggestions about suitable sources of material. As always, I will complile a list of suggestions to post back to the list.
     
    ( I am especially (although not exclusively) interested in material which concerns leadership from unexpected quarters and upward leadership as well as material which suggests some of the pitfalls of charismatic leadership.)
     
    Many thanks for your help
     
    Mark
     

    Prof. Mark Fenton-O'Creevy

    Director, Programmes and Curriculum

    & Professor of Organisational Behaviour
    Open University Business School
    Walton Hall
    Milton Keynes MK7 6AA
    <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United Kingdom</st1:place></st1:country-region>

     

    Curriculum and Programmes e-mail: oubs-dir-pc@open.ac.uk
    personal e-mail: m.p.fenton-ocreevy@open.ac.uk
    (DL) +44 (0)1908-655804
    Fax: +44 (0)1908-655898
    Web : oubs.open.ac.uk

     

     

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  • 5.  Films relevant to a leadership course

    Posted 03-27-2006 07:08
    one of my colleagues wrote a book a couple of years ago: Fictional modells - reflections on movie heroes as leaders. it used nine movies to illustrate different aspects of leadership. in order not to make this too long, i'll just list the films and the corresponding chapter headings:

    Any given sunday - Motivation is all
    Matrix - The leader's reality
    Elizabeth - Action and image
    Nixon - The sacrifice of a responsible leader
    Life of Brian - The quest for models
    The Godfather - An evil decision maker
    The Bridge over the river Kwai - The curse of principles

    regards/bengt

    ps. nine he said?! well, the other two are Swedish and probably not so easy to find in the UK: The brothers Mozart and Beck - The man with the icons.

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    School of Business
    Stockholm University
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    -----Original Message-----
    From: Management Education and Development Discussion on behalf of M.P.Fenton-OCreevy
    Sent: Mon 2006-03-27 11:04
    To: MG-ED-DV@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Subject: Films relevant to a leadership course

    Colleagues,

    Impressed by the volume and quality of responses to Fred's request about
    change management books, I would like to invite your thoughts on a
    different (although related) topic.

    I am in the early stages of thinking about putting together a course on
    leadership (and followership) for undergraduate students in their second
    year of a degree in business and management studies. I want to stimulate
    discussion by showing them film clips, news archives, tv clips (or even
    complete films) which illustrate good and bad leadership and leadership
    dilemmas.
    I would welcome any suggestions about suitable sources of material. As
    always, I will complile a list of suggestions to post back to the list.

    ( I am especially (although not exclusively) interested in material
    which concerns leadership from unexpected quarters and upward leadership
    as well as material which suggests some of the pitfalls of charismatic
    leadership.)

    Many thanks for your help

    Mark


    Prof. Mark Fenton-O'Creevy

    Director, Programmes and Curriculum

    & Professor of Organisational Behaviour
    Open University Business School
    Walton Hall
    Milton Keynes MK7 6AA
    United Kingdom



    Curriculum and Programmes e-mail: oubs-dir-pc@open.ac.uk
    personal e-mail: m.p.fenton-ocreevy@open.ac.uk
    (DL) +44 (0)1908-655804
    Fax: +44 (0)1908-655898
    Web : oubs.open.ac.uk


  • 6.  Films relevant to a leadership course

    Posted 03-27-2006 07:12
    Mark,

    I have been using film clips for some time. Here are two of my favorite
    films which might be quite suitable for your purpose because they
    illustrate some of the reasons of failure of formal top-down leadership :

    -- Ken Loach, The Navigators (supervisor team briefing sequence, MD
    videoconference, ...)
    -- Milos Forman, One flew over the coocoo's nest (team therapy sessions =
    confrontation formal vs. informal leadership)

    If you are interested I can give you some more details about the sequences
    I use.

    There are some very interesting suggestion about film use in Huczynski &
    Buchanan's OB textbook (also see their instructors' guide)

    In turn I have also a question concerning copyright. Much use of films etc.
    in the classroom seems to lie somewhat in a grey zone. Do you have any
    precise information on what can legally be done, and where the limitations
    are ?

    Best regards,
    Clemens

    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------


    Dr. Charles-Clemens Rüling
    Associate Professor & Department Head
    Management and Behaviors Department
    Grenoble Ecole de Management
    12 rue Pierre Sémard - BP 127
    38003 Grenoble Cedex 01, France

    Phone +33 (0)4 76 70 60 34
    Fax +33 (0)4 76 70 61 38
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    Colleagues,

    Impressed by the volume and quality of responses to Fred's request about
    change management books, I would like to invite your thoughts on a
    different (although related) topic.

    I am in the early stages of thinking about putting together a course on
    leadership (and followership) for undergraduate students in their second
    year of a degree in business and management studies. I want to stimulate
    discussion by showing them film clips, news archives, tv clips (or even
    complete films) which illustrate good and bad leadership and leadership
    dilemmas.
    I would welcome any suggestions about suitable sources of material. As
    always, I will complile a list of suggestions to post back to the list.

    ( I am especially (although not exclusively) interested in material which
    concerns leadership from unexpected quarters and upward leadership as well
    as material which suggests some of the pitfalls of charismatic leadership.)

    Many thanks for your help

    Mark

    />
    Prof. Mark Fenton-O'Creevy
    Director, Programmes and Curriculum
    & Professor of Organisational Behaviour
    Open University Business School
    Walton Hall
    Milton Keynes MK7 6AA
    = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />United Kingdom

    Curriculum and Programmes e-mail: oubs-dir-pc@open.ac.uk
    personal e-mail: m.p.fenton-ocreevy@open.ac.uk
    (DL) +44 (0)1908-655804
    Fax: +44 (0)1908-655898
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  • 7.  Films relevant to a leadership course

    Posted 03-27-2006 07:36

     Hi!

               

    I found Don Quixote's lessons in Leadership to be a wonderful film to trigger thoughts on leadership. The film has been put together by a professor from Stanford University. In fact <st1:place><st1:placename>Stanford</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>University</st1:placetype></st1:place> leadership center seems to have developed other relevant films too.

    I also use Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning to stimulate thinking on personal transformation on the path to developing leadership.

     

    Hope this helps!

    Regards,

     

    Asha Bhandarker

    RM Chair Professor of Leadership Studies

    MDI-Gurgaon,

    <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region>

    www.mdi.ac.in

     

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    Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 2:34 PM
    To: MG-ED-DV@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Subject: Films relevant to a leadership course

     

    Colleagues,

     

    Impressed by the volume and quality of responses to Fred's request about change management books, I would like to invite your thoughts on a different (although related) topic.

     

    I am in the early stages of thinking about putting together a course on leadership (and followership) for undergraduate students in their second year of a degree in business and management studies. I want to stimulate discussion by showing them film clips, news archives, tv clips (or even complete films) which illustrate good and bad leadership and leadership dilemmas.

    I would welcome any suggestions about suitable sources of material. As always, I will complile a list of suggestions to post back to the list.

     

    ( I am especially (although not exclusively) interested in material which concerns leadership from unexpected quarters and upward leadership as well as material which suggests some of the pitfalls of charismatic leadership.)

     

    Many thanks for your help

     

    Mark

     

    Prof. Mark Fenton-O'Creevy

    Director, Programmes and Curriculum

    & Professor of Organisational Behaviour
    Open University Business School
    Walton Hall
    Milton Keynes MK7 6AA
    <st1:country-region u1:st="on"><st1:place u1:st="on">United Kingdom</st1:place></st1:country-region>

     

    Curriculum and Programmes e-mail: oubs-dir-pc@open.ac.uk
    personal e-mail: m.p.fenton-ocreevy@open.ac.uk
    (DL) +44 (0)1908-655804
    Fax: +44 (0)1908-655898
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  • 8.  Films relevant to a leadership course

    Posted 03-27-2006 08:37
    Mark,

    I teach Leadership to third year undergraduate students, and do use several films.

    I use The Wave on charismatic leadership (besides showing leadership behaviors it shows the dark side of charismatic leadership).
    Animal Farm has great episodes on power and influence. So does the Godfather. And, I sometimes use speeches of influential leaders (M. L. King, Reagan, Clinton etc.) to show aspects of leadership.

    Best,
    Irene

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    Sent: maandag 27 maart 2006 14:12
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    Subject: Films relevant to a leadership course

    Mark,

    I have been using film clips for some time. Here are two of my favorite
    films which might be quite suitable for your purpose because they
    illustrate some of the reasons of failure of formal top-down leadership :

    -- Ken Loach, The Navigators (supervisor team briefing sequence, MD
    videoconference, ...)
    -- Milos Forman, One flew over the coocoo's nest (team therapy sessions =
    confrontation formal vs. informal leadership)

    If you are interested I can give you some more details about the sequences
    I use.

    There are some very interesting suggestion about film use in Huczynski &
    Buchanan's OB textbook (also see their instructors' guide)

    In turn I have also a question concerning copyright. Much use of films etc.
    in the classroom seems to lie somewhat in a grey zone. Do you have any
    precise information on what can legally be done, and where the limitations
    are ?

    Best regards,
    Clemens

    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------


    Dr. Charles-Clemens Rüling
    Associate Professor & Department Head
    Management and Behaviors Department
    Grenoble Ecole de Management
    12 rue Pierre Sémard - BP 127
    38003 Grenoble Cedex 01, France

    Phone +33 (0)4 76 70 60 34
    Fax +33 (0)4 76 70 61 38
    Email: charles-clemens.ruling@grenoble-em.com
    Http://www.grenoble-em.com



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    Colleagues,

    Impressed by the volume and quality of responses to Fred's request about
    change management books, I would like to invite your thoughts on a
    different (although related) topic.

    I am in the early stages of thinking about putting together a course on
    leadership (and followership) for undergraduate students in their second
    year of a degree in business and management studies. I want to stimulate
    discussion by showing them film clips, news archives, tv clips (or even
    complete films) which illustrate good and bad leadership and leadership
    dilemmas.
    I would welcome any suggestions about suitable sources of material. As
    always, I will complile a list of suggestions to post back to the list.

    ( I am especially (although not exclusively) interested in material which
    concerns leadership from unexpected quarters and upward leadership as well
    as material which suggests some of the pitfalls of charismatic leadership.)

    Many thanks for your help

    Mark

    />
    Prof. Mark Fenton-O'Creevy
    Director, Programmes and Curriculum
    & Professor of Organisational Behaviour
    Open University Business School
    Walton Hall
    Milton Keynes MK7 6AA
    = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />United Kingdom

    Curriculum and Programmes e-mail: oubs-dir-pc@open.ac.uk
    personal e-mail: m.p.fenton-ocreevy@open.ac.uk
    (DL) +44 (0)1908-655804
    Fax: +44 (0)1908-655898
    Web : oubs.open.ac.uk


  • 9.  Films relevant to a leadership course

    Posted 03-27-2006 09:31
    Mark,
     
    You asked for ideas for materials and movies regarding leadership, including from unexpected quarters  Just like ideas for good change management books, ideas about leadership can become a vast array of unorganized information that is almost overwhelming.  That problem certainly can exist for those of us who are very experienced -- it can be much worse for the uninitiated, e.g., for new students.
     
    Without some taxonomy, information about leadership can soon become a widely divergent and diverse list of practical, idealized and even romanticized materials that, while they truly inspire us, they can also be difficult for many to apply to the day-to-day realities of lfe in organizations.
     
    I encourage you, when educating about leadership, to consider which domain(s) of leadership you are talking about because the ideas and movies you'll get could be completely different, based on the domain.  Consider the taxonomy referrred to below.  I can just feel some of you reacting with, "Oh no, there goes Carter on taxonomies again!" :-). 
     
    You might very well have more experience in teaching leadership than I have, so I don't mean to sound pretentious in the following -- I'm just offering my opinion. 
     
    Is your course's domain of leadership primarily:
    1.  About leading oneself? That mean ideas and movies about, e.g., assertiveness, time and stress management, etc.
    2.  About leading other individuals?  That means ideas and movies about, e.g., coaching, consulting, mentoring, guiding, etc.
    3.  About leading groups?  That means ideas and movies about, e.g., meeting management, facilitation, etc.
    4.  About leading organizations?  That means ideas and movies about, e.g., strategic planning, business planning, etc.
    5.  About leading societies?  That means ideas about community organizing, religious leaders, etc.
     
    Also, regardless of the domain, are you referring to leadership as:
    1.  Traits that good leaders might have, e.g., ethical, visionary, etc.?
    2.  Roles of leadership, e.g., CEO, COO, Board Chair?
     
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    Subject: Films relevant to a leadership course

    Colleagues,
     
    Impressed by the volume and quality of responses to Fred's request about change management books, I would like to invite your thoughts on a different (although related) topic.  I am in the early stages of thinking about putting together a course on leadership (and followership) for undergraduate students in their second year of a degree in business and management studies. I want to stimulate discussion by showing them film clips, news archives, tv clips (or even complete films) which illustrate good and bad leadership and leadership dilemmas.  I would welcome any suggestions about suitable sources of material. As always, I will complile a list of suggestions to post back to the list.  ( I am especially (although not exclusively) interested in material which concerns leadership from unexpected quarters and upward leadership as well as material which suggests some of the pitfalls of charismatic leadership.)  Many thanks for your help

    Prof. Mark Fenton-O'Creevy

    Director, Programmes and Curriculum

    & Professor of Organisational Behaviour
    Open University Business School
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  • 10.  Films relevant to a leadership course

    Posted 03-27-2006 13:43

    While a bit dated, one video that comes to mind is Tom Peters' "Leadership Alliance."  It is segmented, so it is easy to pause at the end of sections to encourage discussion.  Another video that I use a lot to talk about the role of the leader and the kind of culture that needs to be present in an organization to create employee engagement is the dramatic version of "Gung Ho" by Ken Blanchard and Sheldon Bowles.  Again, it is filmed in sections so you can pause and discuss.  There is also a version that shows the story, and at the end of each part of the story Blanchard and Bowles discuss the key concepts from that part.  Once again, it is a great way to encourage discussion, or to spread the video over several classes due to time issues.

     

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  • 11.  Films relevant to a leadership course

    Posted 03-27-2006 15:57
    I would strongly recommend Attenborough's 'Gandhi.' It is a bit
    long, but there are some excellent segments in it that illustrate
    leadership.

    peace,

    gopinath

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  • 12.  Films relevant to a leadership course

    Posted 03-27-2006 16:34
    There is an episode of The West Wing that is sort of a documentary about
    leadership quoting US presidential advisors and so forth. Quite interesting
    and useful overview. I enjoy films on leadership including: Gladiator,
    Master and Commander, Hamburger Hill, MASH, Eisenhower (TV miniseries),
    Patton, Lord of the Rings (primarily Return of the King), All the Kings Men,
    A Man who would be King, Gandhi, and most biographies of leaders. I would
    also suggest episodes from the Biography Channel, and other programming on
    PBS, CNN, ESPN and MSNBC that profile leadership roles and behaviors. Lots
    of sports movies about leadership (Hoosiers for example and more recent
    films like Friday Night Lights. See the Academy of Management and OBTC
    proceedings and programs over past several years to connect to colleagues
    who are actively engaged in research and writing about the use of films in
    the classroom. Joe Champoux comes to mind. Bill
    William D. Schulte, Jr., Ph.D.
    Associate Professor
    Department of Management Science
    Harry F. Byrd Jr. School of Business
    Shenandoah University
    1460 University Drive Winchester, VA 22601
    wschulte@su.edu

    The mission of the Harry F. Byrd, Jr. School of Business is to educate its
    students to become successful, principled leaders with a global perspective.

    "Success Stories Start Here"

    -----Original Message-----
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    [mailto:MG-ED-DV@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU]On Behalf Of Irene de Pater
    Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 8:37 AM
    To: MG-ED-DV@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Subject: Re: Films relevant to a leadership course

    Mark,

    I teach Leadership to third year undergraduate students, and do use several
    films.

    I use The Wave on charismatic leadership (besides showing leadership
    behaviors it shows the dark side of charismatic leadership).
    Animal Farm has great episodes on power and influence. So does the
    Godfather. And, I sometimes use speeches of influential leaders (M. L. King,
    Reagan, Clinton etc.) to show aspects of leadership.

    Best,
    Irene

    ___________________________________________________________
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    University of Amsterdam
    Department of Work and Organizational Psychology
    Roetersstraat 15
    1018 WB Amsterdam
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    [mailto:MG-ED-DV@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of Charles-Clemens R�ling
    Sent: maandag 27 maart 2006 14:12
    To: MG-ED-DV@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Subject: Films relevant to a leadership course

    Mark,

    I have been using film clips for some time. Here are two of my favorite
    films which might be quite suitable for your purpose because they
    illustrate some of the reasons of failure of formal top-down leadership :

    -- Ken Loach, The Navigators (supervisor team briefing sequence, MD
    videoconference, ...)
    -- Milos Forman, One flew over the coocoo's nest (team therapy sessions =
    confrontation formal vs. informal leadership)

    If you are interested I can give you some more details about the sequences
    I use.

    There are some very interesting suggestion about film use in Huczynski &
    Buchanan's OB textbook (also see their instructors' guide)

    In turn I have also a question concerning copyright. Much use of films etc.
    in the classroom seems to lie somewhat in a grey zone. Do you have any
    precise information on what can legally be done, and where the limitations
    are ?

    Best regards,
    Clemens

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    Colleagues,

    Impressed by the volume and quality of responses to Fred's request about
    change management books, I would like to invite your thoughts on a
    different (although related) topic.

    I am in the early stages of thinking about putting together a course on
    leadership (and followership) for undergraduate students in their second
    year of a degree in business and management studies. I want to stimulate
    discussion by showing them film clips, news archives, tv clips (or even
    complete films) which illustrate good and bad leadership and leadership
    dilemmas.
    I would welcome any suggestions about suitable sources of material. As
    always, I will complile a list of suggestions to post back to the list.

    ( I am especially (although not exclusively) interested in material which
    concerns leadership from unexpected quarters and upward leadership as well
    as material which suggests some of the pitfalls of charismatic leadership.)

    Many thanks for your help

    Mark

    />
    Prof. Mark Fenton-O'Creevy
    Director, Programmes and Curriculum
    & Professor of Organisational Behaviour
    Open University Business School
    Walton Hall
    Milton Keynes MK7 6AA
    = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />United Kingdom

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  • 13.  Films relevant to a leadership course

    Posted 03-27-2006 18:14
    The leadership provided by Gill in the fish tank in "Finding Nemo" is as good an example as any.
    Cheers,
    Samir


    ==========================
    "We know too little to be dogmatists and too much to be sceptics" -- Pascal

    Samir Shrivastava
    Lecturer, Faculty of Business & Enterprise
    Swinburne University of Technology
    John St, Hawthorn VIC 3122
    Australia
    Tel: + 61 3 9214 5350 (work)
    Fax: + 61 3 98192117
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    >>> bengt.kjellen@FEK.SU.SE 27/03/06 10:07 PM >>>
    one of my colleagues wrote a book a couple of years ago: Fictional modells - reflections on movie heroes as leaders. it used nine movies to illustrate different aspects of leadership. in order not to make this too long, i'll just list the films and the corresponding chapter headings:

    Any given sunday - Motivation is all
    Matrix - The leader's reality
    Elizabeth - Action and image
    Nixon - The sacrifice of a responsible leader
    Life of Brian - The quest for models
    The Godfather - An evil decision maker
    The Bridge over the river Kwai - The curse of principles

    regards/bengt

    ps. nine he said?! well, the other two are Swedish and probably not so easy to find in the UK: The brothers Mozart and Beck - The man with the icons.

    ------------------------------------------------------
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    Assistant Professor
    School of Business
    Stockholm University
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    Colleagues,

    Impressed by the volume and quality of responses to Fred's request about
    change management books, I would like to invite your thoughts on a
    different (although related) topic.

    I am in the early stages of thinking about putting together a course on
    leadership (and followership) for undergraduate students in their second
    year of a degree in business and management studies. I want to stimulate
    discussion by showing them film clips, news archives, tv clips (or even
    complete films) which illustrate good and bad leadership and leadership
    dilemmas.
    I would welcome any suggestions about suitable sources of material. As
    always, I will complile a list of suggestions to post back to the list.

    ( I am especially (although not exclusively) interested in material
    which concerns leadership from unexpected quarters and upward leadership
    as well as material which suggests some of the pitfalls of charismatic
    leadership.)

    Many thanks for your help

    Mark


    Prof. Mark Fenton-O'Creevy

    Director, Programmes and Curriculum

    & Professor of Organisational Behaviour
    Open University Business School
    Walton Hall
    Milton Keynes MK7 6AA
    United Kingdom



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  • 14.  Films relevant to a leadership course

    Posted 03-28-2006 05:24
    I don't think I've seen one of my favorite leadship films here yet: Babe
    (the pig, not the Ruth).
    I also use "Mutiny on the Bounty" for contrasting styles within the same
    situation.
    Bobbie

    Dr. Bobbie Turniansky
    Chair, Department of Psychology
    Kaye College of Education
    Beer Sheva
    ISRAEL

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  • 15.  Films relevant to a leadership course

    Posted 03-28-2006 09:18
    Very many thanks to all who have contributed to this topic both on and
    of the list (more ideas certainly welcome).

    I will leave some more time for further suggestions to come in then pull
    a summary together.

    On Carters point about taxonomies, I suspect that most people who
    contributed have had some clear ideas about taxonomies either tacit or
    explicit.

    My own would tend towards transformational/charismatic leadership,
    distributed leadership, servant leadership, etc with scale cutting
    across all of these.

    Best regards

    Mark

    Prof. Mark Fenton-O'Creevy

    Director, Centre for Practice Based Professional Learning & Professor of
    Organisational Behaviour
    Open University
    Walton Hall
    Milton Keynes MK7 6AA
    United Kingdom

    e-mail: m.p.fenton-ocreevy@open.ac.uk
    (DL) +44 (0)1908-655804
    Fax: +44 (0)1908-655898
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  • 16.  Films relevant to a leadership course

    Posted 03-29-2006 04:00

    Yes agree Wolfgang, I used 12 angry men for many workshops to illustrate the nature of leadership and conformity.

    Best wishes

    Norah

     

    Professor Norah Jones
    Head of  Campus Blended Learning
    Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching
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    Tel 01443 654094
    email njones2@glam.ac.uk
    http://learning.weblog.glam.ac.uk
    http://blendedlearning.glam.ac.uk/

    From: Management Education and Development Discussion [mailto:MG-ED-DV@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of Wolfgang Mayrhofer
    Sent: 27 March 2006 12:06
    To: MG-ED-DV@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Subject: Re: Films relevant to a leadership course

     

    just to start the feedback and in order not to forget an obvious one: 12 angry men from 1957, directed by syd lumet and starring, among others, henry fonda and lee cobb, which for a long time has been used to in leadership education to illustrate different leadership styles and group roles.

    cheers

    wolfgang mayrhofer

    M.P.Fenton-OCreevy schrieb:

    Colleagues,

     

    Impressed by the volume and quality of responses to Fred's request about change management books, I would like to invite your thoughts on a different (although related) topic.

     

    I am in the early stages of thinking about putting together a course on leadership (and followership) for undergraduate students in their second year of a degree in business and management studies. I want to stimulate discussion by showing them film clips, news archives, tv clips (or even complete films) which illustrate good and bad leadership and leadership dilemmas.

    I would welcome any suggestions about suitable sources of material. As always, I will complile a list of suggestions to post back to the list.

     

    ( I am especially (although not exclusively) interested in material which concerns leadership from unexpected quarters and upward leadership as well as material which suggests some of the pitfalls of charismatic leadership.)

     

    Many thanks for your help

     

    Mark

     

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  • 17.  Films relevant to a leadership course

    Posted 03-29-2006 04:41
    Just to add to this stream which I find very useful:

    The text book (I don't think it has it been mentioned):
    Organisational Behaviour: Individuals, Groups and Organisation by Ian
    Brooks Third edition 2006 Prentice-Hall

    It includes a good number of mini-cases using films or tv programs.

    Dr. Krista Finstad-Milion
    Associate Professor
    Management of Organisations and Human Resources Department
    ICN School of Management

    06.12.89.12.69

    ESIDEC
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    I don't think I've seen one of my favorite leadship films here yet: Babe
    (the pig, not the Ruth).
    I also use "Mutiny on the Bounty" for contrasting styles within the same
    situation.
    Bobbie

    Dr. Bobbie Turniansky
    Chair, Department of Psychology
    Kaye College of Education
    Beer Sheva
    ISRAEL

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  • 18.  Films relevant to a leadership course

    Posted 03-29-2006 10:03
    M.P.Fenton-OCreevy wrote:

    >
    >Very many thanks to all who have contributed to this topic both on and
    >of the list (more ideas certainly welcome).
    >
    >I will leave some more time for further suggestions to come in then pull
    >a summary together.
    >
    >On Carters point about taxonomies, I suspect that most people who
    >contributed have had some clear ideas about taxonomies either tacit or
    >explicit.
    >
    >My own would tend towards transformational/charismatic leadership,
    >distributed leadership, servant leadership, etc with scale cutting
    >across all of these.
    >
    >Best regards
    >
    >Mark
    >
    >Prof. Mark Fenton-O'Creevy
    >
    >Director, Centre for Practice Based Professional Learning & Professor of
    >Organisational Behaviour
    >Open University
    >Walton Hall
    >Milton Keynes MK7 6AA
    >United Kingdom
    >
    >e-mail: m.p.fenton-ocreevy@open.ac.uk
    >(DL) +44 (0)1908-655804
    >Fax: +44 (0)1908-655898
    >Web : cetl.open.ac.uk/pbpl
    >
    >
    >
    Mark,
    Sorry for entering this discussion late. Don't know if the following has
    been mentioned. Hartwick College has an Institute (Hartwick Humanities
    in Management Institute, www.HartwickInstitute.org) that has a
    formalized approach to the study of management and leadership using both
    films ans classic literature. I have written some of their cases and
    teaching notes.
    One that I did that is perhaps one of the best pieces of literature on
    leadership is Shogun by James Clavell. It was a miniseries on ABC many
    years ago, but they have created a two hour version. If you get past the
    love story theme in the film, it is a terrific example of different
    leadership styles, cultural influences, power, politics, etc. Good luck.
    Barry