Hi Matt. What happened to the podcast? I usually listen to it while I'm out running but it's been several weeks since a new one dropped. The last one available is from March 15 - I miss your various musical interludes and your "What's going on movie lovers". I knew the end of the podcast was coming . . . Has it come?
And on another subject let me tell you a "12 Angry Men" story. SPOILER ALERT. Years ago I was at management conference/workshop. There were over one hundred of us in a banquet hall at a large hotel sitting at tables of eight. The leader of the workshop passed out a picture of the jury room with all the seated jurors. He told us that over the course of the movie all the jurors were going to change their mind from guilty to not guilty. Our task was to watch the first several minutes or so of the movie (before anyone changes their mind) and then individually write down our guess of the order in which they do change their minds. After doing this he gave us the same task of predicting the correct order but this time working as a group. He told us that in many years of doing this exercise no individual ever scored higher than their group. That was true for my group and for the entire workshop. I think I may have predicted 4 or 5 correctly, while my group scored 8 of 12. Several groups in the room scored a perfect 12. The point of the exercise is that group collaboration will produce better decisions. After the exercise was over we prevailed upon him to show the rest of the movie - he said that was also a common occurance.
Had similar feelings to you on “Civil War.” My only adds would be that (at times) the movie almost seems to have an anti-media view in that the images the main characters are taking only perpetuate the horrid violence. And the “we take the pictures so other people are supposed to ask the questions” line felt like the entire ethos of the movie in a nutshell
Hi Matt. What happened to the podcast? I usually listen to it while I'm out running but it's been several weeks since a new one dropped. The last one available is from March 15 - I miss your various musical interludes and your "What's going on movie lovers". I knew the end of the podcast was coming . . . Has it come?
And on another subject let me tell you a "12 Angry Men" story. SPOILER ALERT. Years ago I was at management conference/workshop. There were over one hundred of us in a banquet hall at a large hotel sitting at tables of eight. The leader of the workshop passed out a picture of the jury room with all the seated jurors. He told us that over the course of the movie all the jurors were going to change their mind from guilty to not guilty. Our task was to watch the first several minutes or so of the movie (before anyone changes their mind) and then individually write down our guess of the order in which they do change their minds. After doing this he gave us the same task of predicting the correct order but this time working as a group. He told us that in many years of doing this exercise no individual ever scored higher than their group. That was true for my group and for the entire workshop. I think I may have predicted 4 or 5 correctly, while my group scored 8 of 12. Several groups in the room scored a perfect 12. The point of the exercise is that group collaboration will produce better decisions. After the exercise was over we prevailed upon him to show the rest of the movie - he said that was also a common occurance.
Had similar feelings to you on “Civil War.” My only adds would be that (at times) the movie almost seems to have an anti-media view in that the images the main characters are taking only perpetuate the horrid violence. And the “we take the pictures so other people are supposed to ask the questions” line felt like the entire ethos of the movie in a nutshell