A Management Lesson

Rating: 10/10 (5 April 2016)

Always true and success stories are inspirational. It drives people from common middle class background to have to dream and strive to reach for their ambition. Psychologically it makes us feel good that we hope to achieve something in our limited span of time in this cosmos.
Few movies that made an impact for me are the likes of Pursuit of Happiness and Shawshank Redemption. The movie focuses on a semi- urban locality McFarland that is a habitat for the immigrants' population of US. Here their survival depends upon agricultural produce and is not uncommon to view children entering the labor force at a very young age.
It is a boardroom management lesson – the character of Jim White. Call it circumstances or act of God he is supposed to train the students in American Foot Ball. It is public school where funding is a scarce resource and students less motivated to take up sports. All he understood was the children had a natural ability to run for their daily chores. He capitalized that aspect and trained them to their maiden 'Cross country race'.
We always need to see opportunity within our limited resources. Allowing ourselves to be stagnate and complaining leads us to depression. Life is never going to be linear and all I saw from the movie whether a teacher / team Leader should be in a position to impart knowledge and show us something best from the better.
The film will remain with me as an enjoyable and inspiration source. I give credit to the cast and crews' members making us understand their joys and sorrows, vulnerability and strength and finally inhibitions and liberation.