watching movies?

La Vita e Bella- "Life is Beautiful" amazing movie! Why didn't I think of it for IM2?!?!

In light of our talk about movies and then the final class on leadership, I began to think about the movie I chose for IM2 and the main point of the film which I managed to only skim over in my analysis of it. Feinberg claims that one of the greatest leadership films of all time is The Wizard of Oz. I found it interesting that one of the core underlying themes Girl, Interrupted parallelled Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, incorporating many references to the theme. Suzanna, like Dorothy, was stuck in a place she did not to be and trying to get home unbeknownst to her that the power to leave was in her all along.

Decision-Making

The leader must proactively seek out the expert in the group and bring them forward to make the decision. Ideally, a group decision should be better than an individual decision because there is a greater chance of expertise among a pool of individuals. But just because there are more sources from which to draw solutions, that does not mean all members should be included in the decision-making--only those who can offer the best possible solution. There were people in our group that knew more about the survival situation than the rest of us but they were not influential or did not come forth, and the group leader was not able to help them do so.