$#&% DE - INDIA
The latest mania that seems to have gripped the B Schools in India is to watch Chak De India and draw leadership lessons from it.
How much can a movie teach you about leadership? Or does it teach anything at all. Or is it more an academic stunt masqueraded as “Innovative Pedagogy”? I concede that some movies make you feel good and leave you inspired but at the end of it, too much off a good thing leaves a bad aftertaste.
Picture this scenario, the entire class watches the movie for 3 hrs, and then does a group assignment for 2 hrs and an individual assignment for another hour. The ordeal doesn’t end there then the professors get involved, old management theories are revisited new ones are constructed. The whole movie is dissected, bisected and beaten to death. Inferences and conclusions are drawn where none exist. Meanings are attached and stupid things are glorified all in the name of Case Analysis. “Sounding Intelligent” becomes a norm and gets contagious.
Pardon my dumbness despite spending 7 hours I couldn’t figure out anything beyond Preeti Sabharwal’s looks and Komal Chautala’s flicks, while others in the institution seem to have learnt a great deal about transformational and transactional leadership. On completion of the whole exercise I ended up hating a movie which I liked initially and even more I have developed an aversion towards “Leadership Building” sessions.
When young MBA’s spew jargons and talk about leadership with more aplomb and assurance than a Narayan Murthy or a Ratan Tata, you begin to wonder whether you are listening to great leaders of tomorrow or confused jackass/jenny ass who don’t know what they are talking. More likely the latter, I guess.
Then again may be that’s what an MBA is all about. BULL SHIT your way to glory!!!
--Raghuram S
PS: Sorry Ma’am, I’ve let you down yet again. After hot puris and a free movie I surely should have learnt something more. Sincere Apologies.
How much can a movie teach you about leadership? Or does it teach anything at all. Or is it more an academic stunt masqueraded as “Innovative Pedagogy”? I concede that some movies make you feel good and leave you inspired but at the end of it, too much off a good thing leaves a bad aftertaste.
Picture this scenario, the entire class watches the movie for 3 hrs, and then does a group assignment for 2 hrs and an individual assignment for another hour. The ordeal doesn’t end there then the professors get involved, old management theories are revisited new ones are constructed. The whole movie is dissected, bisected and beaten to death. Inferences and conclusions are drawn where none exist. Meanings are attached and stupid things are glorified all in the name of Case Analysis. “Sounding Intelligent” becomes a norm and gets contagious.
Pardon my dumbness despite spending 7 hours I couldn’t figure out anything beyond Preeti Sabharwal’s looks and Komal Chautala’s flicks, while others in the institution seem to have learnt a great deal about transformational and transactional leadership. On completion of the whole exercise I ended up hating a movie which I liked initially and even more I have developed an aversion towards “Leadership Building” sessions.
When young MBA’s spew jargons and talk about leadership with more aplomb and assurance than a Narayan Murthy or a Ratan Tata, you begin to wonder whether you are listening to great leaders of tomorrow or confused jackass/jenny ass who don’t know what they are talking. More likely the latter, I guess.
Then again may be that’s what an MBA is all about. BULL SHIT your way to glory!!!
--Raghuram S
PS: Sorry Ma’am, I’ve let you down yet again. After hot puris and a free movie I surely should have learnt something more. Sincere Apologies.
Labels: B Schools, Chak De, Leadership
posted by Raghuram at
2:23 PM
3 Comments:
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So you have started puking out finally !! good stuff!!
very true raghu... same happened with me.. after i came out of the morning session, why the heck this movie was created in first place... hehe.. neways.. u rock man!!!
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