{"id":798,"date":"2008-08-22T13:53:49","date_gmt":"2008-08-22T12:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/?p=798"},"modified":"2020-07-29T10:35:41","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T09:35:41","slug":"watch-movies-learn-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/watch-movies-learn-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Movies, Learn Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"

The leadership development industry is estimated by some to be as large as $15 billion (USD). There are many University courses, seminars, books and articles, all trying to convey leadership principles, and many fail. A reason is that leadership is best learned by experiencing it and the many leadership teaching products and services are lacking here.<\/p>\n

\nThe primary source of learning to lead, to the extent that leadership can be learned, is experience. Leadership development through experience.
\nMorgan W. McCall, Jr.<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Unless you are on the fast track at your organization you don’t get the opportunity to be mentored by senior managers who will mentor and guide you.<\/p>\n

There is an alternative learning method that some enlightened professors are using and that you can use yourself — Business Cases using movies. Movies are stories and stories can be a surrogate for experience.<\/p>\n

\na knowledge-sharing story offers a surrogate experience. When one reads a novel, one often feels as if one is living the experience described in the novel. So too when a story is recounted, the narrative form offers the listener an opportunity to experience in a surrogate fashion the situation that was experienced by the storyteller.
\nStorytelling in Organizations: The power and traps of using stories to share knowledge in organizations
\nDeborah Sole, LILA Harvard University <\/em>
\nDaniel Gray Wilson, LILA Harvard University<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

OK, got the logic? Leadership is best learned by experience, stories can be an alternative for experience and movies are stories. <\/p>\n

One of the best sites that offers movie leadership case studies is the Hartwick Institute<\/a>. You can purchase the case study and teaching notes at reasonable prices.<\/p>\n

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This site has a scholarly approach and describes how to use the selected movies to teach and learn leadership skills. <\/p>\n

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Another, less scholarly but still worthy of a visit, is MoviesForBusiness<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The concept is the same but it takes a more entertaining approach. There is a free lesson based on the Wizard of Oz and you can even get an MBA (Master of Bijou Advice), obviously not accredited.<\/p>\n

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Here are some additional resources —<\/p>\n