Management as Metaphor LO8839

arthur battram (apb@cityplex.demon.co.uk)
Fri, 2 Aug 1996 20:40:23 +0000

Replying to LO8780 --

>With all the talk coming from Bob Dole about movies, family entertainment,
>and Hollywood, this thought crossed my mind. What movie as a metaphor most
>closely captures management theory and why?

good one! the second one this week! what I mean is the second one with
some humour, the learning organisation e-discussion is really excellent-
not only do I get high quality thinking, occassionally 'flamey' stuff [for
example- keith cowan's lurker debate] but now we get fun as well, also and
in addition. just when I found myself agreeing a bit with that msg
recently about serious heavy mystical etcetera type msgs-hope its not just
because it's august [ie silly season]

to answer the question, off the top of my head:

goodfellas
the abyss
starwars/dune
the piano
brazil
sex, lies and videotape
what have I done to deserve this
field of dreams
life of brian
terminator 2
solaris
andrei rublev
jurassic park

now let's have some autopoeitic fun. I don't know why I picked these.
some will seem silly, some will seem obvious, some trite. before I say
why I picked them, I'd like to see if anyone else agrees with my choice
[you don't have to say why yet] THEN I'll say why, and I betcha the
reasons'll be different, and more importantly ,very interesting. [serious
management justification: it's an application of deBono's 'po' , which is
also the name given to the chamberpot under the bed by my gran, 'po is a
3rd answer in addition to yes and no it stands for possibility]

PS 'closely captures management theory' I don't really get this, so I've
taken it to mean, 'illustrates some aspect[s] of management theory that I
like/don't like'...

--

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