![]() ![]() It is the duty of the leaders to show the big picture to everyone. “That’s enough for the province but not for the Rome”, replies his master.Ī very narrow focus is something, which everyone in the organization should avoid. Leadership is an art, an inspiration in itself that can guide the others to greatness.Ħ. A person who can guide the organization through its bad times, a person who have a great idea on which he builds an organization or a person who can provide the vision to the company. ![]() Those people are acknowledged as leaders in an organization who can provide answers to the company’s problems. “Greatness is to provide an idea, a vision”, Maximus to the princess. They have to keep on advising the CEO (ruler) of what is good for the organization (country) and shareholders and how the firm can enhance its corporate performance.ĥ. Their whole purpose is to protect the interests of the shareholders (citizens) of the company. The board of directors (Senate) is not without usage, they just don't do the talking. “What usage, all they do is talk”, Comadeus shots back.Ī big lesson, which was taught to me in the Corporate Governance class. “They have their usage”, replies princess. He is just back after meeting the Senate where they tried to tell him the problems of the common man. “Senate, who are they to lecture me”, shouts Comadeus. Once we are forced to acknowledge the competition, then only we can fight towards winning over it.Ĥ. Whether we think, we can achieve success in one area or not, the only way to find that is to actually compete. Every one of us has our own fears with respect to competition. They all say that until their turn”, ex-Gladiator turned slave master who owns Maximus, while inspiring the would-be Gladiators.Ī personal inspirational message, which comes out from this dialogue. “Some of you are thinking you wont fight, some that you can't fight. These CEOs face the problem that the parent hope that the subsidiary exists for the benefit of the parent while the subsidiary head have to think of his own company as well.ģ. There have been innumerous cases of heads of these companies in conflict with their parent counterparts over issues like dividends, transfer pricing, local products and others. Many of the heads of companies in India with a parent company abroad have faced these situations. Are you loyal to the King or the Kingdom? Are you loyal to the local organization or your loyalty is with the parent. “I will always be loyal to Rome” replies Maximus.Ī typical situation faced by people working in subsidiaries of a bigger corporation. ![]() “Will you serve my brother as you served my father”, princess to Maximus just before Comadeus kills his father and become Caesar. Starting off on this humorous note, lets see how Maximus and Comadeus’s personal rivalry can inspire and teach us about the organizational settings.Ģ. As soon as the product is ready (sometimes even before that), they want to launch a campaign to educate people about it and make them either buy it or be dead. That’s what most of the marketing guys would like to do. “ On my signal, unleash Hell”, Maximus to his commander in war. I will use the scenes and dialogues to illustrate the situations faced by people in their organizational lives.ġ. The way he went about doing it and how it relates to the situations in organizational setting forms the rest of the paper. Now, he should kill Comadeus and return Rome to its glory. He arranged to kill the family of Maximus and ordered his death as well. However, the prince, Comadeus, disapproved it and killed his father. Caesar appointed Maximus (the hero, Russell Crowe) as the next king. Caesar was dying and the prince was no good. Corruption was rampant and senate was helpless. The problem Rome faced, in the times in the movie was set in, that the Roman Empire was in shambles. I will be drawing a few more parallels in this assignment. This is one of the parallels, which can be drawn between the movie and real organizational life. This was a well-known company at its peak, having come up with the blockbuster PC in 1981. One quarter of world’s computer related products were sold by blue suits, employing the largest private army of Noble prizewinners. ![]() The ovie was nomtaed for 12 Oscars and won 5 including Best Picture and Best Actor (for Russell Crowe).Īt the height of its power, the Big Blue was vast, stretching to all corners of the world with products ranging from software to PCs to mainframes to chips. Over one quarter of the world's population lived and died under the rule of the Caesars." Thus starts the movie Gladiator, an epic directed by Ridley Scot, which made a star out of Russell Crowe. "At the height of its power, the Roman Empire was vast, stretching from the deserts of Africa to the borders of Northern England. 10 Organizational Learnings from the movie ![]()
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