beingthered
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“Our Movie Club”
Movie with some Learnings or Parallels to Life / Work
We Recommend – You Watch
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CONVENTIONAL MOVIES YOU KNOW
• Titanic• Lagaan• Escape to Victory• Poseidon Adventure• Towering Inferno
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BEING THERE
LEADERSHIP FOLLOWERSHIP TRANSFERENCE CHARACTERISTICS
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CAST & CHARACTERS
• Director: Hal Ashby• Writers : Jerzy Kosinski • Stars : Peter Sellers,
Shirley MacLaine and Melvyn Douglas
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BEING THERE
• A classic study of this dynamic is the movie Being There. In the film, Peter Sellers plays Chance the gardener, a simple man with little knowledge of the world beyond gardening.
• When his wealthy employer dies, Chance finds himself by happen-stance socializing in the circles of the rich and famous.
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BEING THERE
• He behaves as he always has done, sharing his facile thoughts without considering their effect on those around him.
• But his new acquaintances start reading profound metaphors about politics and economics into his throwaway comments about gardening.
• BY THE END OF THE FILM, CHANCE IS BEING TOUTED AS A US PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFUL.
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BEING THERE
• Although few good leaders are so unaware of their impact that they will allow their relationship with followers to become this unrealistic, it’s remarkable now often even reasonably self-aware leaders will become victims of illusion.
• The transference dynamic is most likely to get out of control during periods of organizational stress.
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BEING THERE
• In such situations, followers tend to be more dominated by irrational feelings feelings – in particular, the need for praise and protection from all-powerful parents.
• At the same time, the leader is preoccupied with handling the crisis at hand and, as a consequence, is probably less alert to the likelihood that his followers are just acting out childhood fears.
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BEING THERE
• Another example of how transference is triggered by doubt and stress is the way people feel better just going to see a doctor, even before the doctor has done anything for them.
• In large measure, this phenomenon can be explained by patients’ trust, which transfers the childhood experience of being cared for by parents when sick.
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BEING THERE
• This type of transference makes it extremely hard for scientists to evaluate certain medications, such as mood-altering drugs.
• Clinical studies show, for example, that up to 30 per cent of people respond as well to placebos – again, trust – as to anti-depressants.
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BEING THERE
• People who volunteer for a study in hopes of finding a cure to their ailment may be especially receptive to placebos.
• As well as being quite subtle in its workings, transference comes in many guises.
• It is blind to both age and gender, so stereotyping is very dangerous.
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BEING THERE
• A male leader, therefore, should never assume that he is a father figure or a brother figure – nor should a female leader assume she’s a mother or a sister.
• Psychoanalysis has clearly shown that someone can have a paternal transference with a man.
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BEING THERE
• What’s more, the images we project from childhood are shaped by the family cultures we grew up with, a fact of particular importance today because more people now have family experiences that differ – sometimes quite radically – from what was long considered the norm.
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BEING THERE
• Indeed, I’ve noticed that for an increasing number of people, the significant person from the past is not a parent but a sibling, a close childhood friend, or even a nanny.
• Organizations are adjusting to the times, moving from hierarchies that worked well with parent-focused employees to more-horizontal setups that suit people who relate better to near equals.
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BEING THERE
• Being There is a movie that is complex and profound in its simplicity.
• What gives this film its innocent and simplistic nature is obviously not the "fallen" world in which Chance lives or even the characters that he encounters.
• Chance himself gives the movie its innocent feel, for Chance himself is Innocence personified.
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BEING THERE
• Therefore, one can easily tell that the characters with which he interacts have fallen subject to, and ultimately portray, the evil that Chance opposes.
• It is not that Chance "opposes" evil; he simply can't partake in evil; it is against his nature.
• This is many times regarded as naiveté, which is not the case.
• Chance is not ignorant of evil much like God is not ignorant of sin.
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BEING THERE
• Some have suggested that Chance is a Christ figure, and I think that might be taking things a bit too far.
• He certainly has characteristics of Christ, but I think the main idea of Chance's character is simply to expose the wicked nature of the others.
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