What does a flamenco dancing astronaut, an awe-inspiring claw machine, and a wise-cracking potato have in common? “Toy Story”, of course! All three examples combined quite unique and disparate traits into what became colorful, humorous, and impactful scenes in the movie series. You might liken any of these to our Jr. Beta Club: we are unique and colorful, humorous (perhaps even in times when we shouldn’t be), but committed to making an impact in our school and community. We take our dissimilar traits and combine them into strengths. Even though “Toy Story” is, at its surface, just a children’s cartoon, each of the three films hold very powerful moral lessons that can be applied to leadership in our Jr. Beta Club. Above and beyond the colorful anecdotes and funny moments, the movies have powerful lessons that can assimilate into leadership quality in Beta today and …show more content…
Throughout the 81 minutes of this modern classic movie, you see how Woody’s life was flipped upside down after the character Buzz Lightyear was introduced. Woody was not welcoming to Buzz when he first entered the toy box. However, as the story moves on, Woody learned to accept the change that was happening and even embrace it as he was shaped to become a better person and developed a lifelong friend in the process. When we were inducted into the Jr. Beta Club, the world we knew was transformed immensely, and as time went on we evolved into better leaders and more accepting people overall. You might say that we were “Buzz Lightyears”, thrust into a new situation where not everyone was welcoming, but given time and the right attitude, we were able to navigate and make our place in Andy’s room. Even though that was only my first year of Beta, I feel like I learned the extremely important lesson of embracing change, and as my years continue I learn more and more each
Within the pages of Disney U, a captivating story unfolds describing the development program designed for Disney employees. Many times reading a perfunctory book that is designed to improve one’s skills in leadership is, well, not a delight to read. However, Disney U is able to grab the reader’s attention and guide them through a thought provoking journey of ground breaking leadership tactics, inventive training methods, and creating an engaging environment for an employee.
Walter Nugent and Norman Graebner explains their view on if the Mexican War was an exercise in American Imperialism or not. Nugent believes that the war was an exercise in American Imperialism. He explains that the United States were imperialistic from the beginning and to expand their territory was one of the primary objectives. Graebner on the other hand does not believe that the war was an exercise of American Imperialism. He suggests that the war occurred from a lack of communication and believes that President James Polk wanted a war. He made a decision to take over territory initially by negotiations but, those negotiations didn’t work which left him with his final decision; war. This war has impacted the United States and Mexico
Leadership is now more evident than ever in our everyday lives as well as in the everyday media. The movie Hidden Figures by Theodore Melfi is a demonstration of leadership in my many different aspects. This movie is the story of three African American women that were an important asset to NASA during the early years of the Space Race. The movie highlights the concepts of Servant Leadership, Authentic Leader, the Situational Approach to leadership, Leader-Member Exchange Theory and Adaptive Leadership.
Traditionally, analysis on roles for effective leadership surround corporate or military settings with clearly defined problems, discernable issues, and areas where hypothesis can be made, models formed, predictions tested, and outcomes verified. Analyzing a film like Seabiscuit for the roles of leadership present many interesting questions about leadership and what it means to be a leader. The film Seabiscuit chronicles the lives of individuals as they become intertwined to produce an outcome, training a horse to race. At what point do individuals stop seeing themselves, in their daily lives, as individuals and begin seeing themselves as members of groups having to take on leadership and
As they are all escaping the daycare, Lotso approaches and pushes them into the dumpster. Thankfully for Woody, the baby expresses his good heart and throws in Lotso into the dumpster with them. Sadly, the dumpster was just picked up and was off to the landfill. As they were fighting to get out of the landfill before the big fire, Lotso escapes and leave Woody behind. Woody and his friends were doomed, but at the last second the claw came down (controlled by the Aliens), and were picked them up and brought to safety. Finally, Woody returned and brought the gift of, being a hero to his friends, and the gift of remembering his past mistakes. The hero's journey in Toy Story 3 was expressed through the toy cowboy: Woody. Throughout his journey, he learned to be courageous and to be determined. As he was being taught through the journey and by the mentor he was learning how to become a hero. Without this key journey, the story of the movie would not be the same. Instead, the path of the story could have been accepting your mistakes because of the mistake of going to daycare. But from the journey, he learned a different lesson and is now a hero for helping his friends get out of the daycare.
The core mission of JROTC is to motivate young people to become better citizens, a goal that shapes me for greater success. Through this student-led program, I’ve learned that leadership isn’t always authority and rank, but instead the influence left behind. Being involved in JROTC, I have seen many who have used their positions, high or low, to influence positive attitudes, team spirit and respect. Besides understanding the mere concept of leadership, I applied this trait in the program, with teams such as color guard and drill allowing me to command and mature my gregarious nature that helps me work with others. In-class curriculums taught me how to combat problems involving harassment, workplace ethics and moral values,
The National Beta Club has prepared me to serve my school, communities, and others in our changing world by promoting achievement, character, leadership, and service. Without Beta Club, my list of accomplishments would not compare to what it is now. Beta has required me to meet valuable goals and opportunities that I might have missed. Being in Beta Club has given me the desire to always do my best.
General Powell highlights 18 lessons learned in leadership that are applied to successful companies, and how they are applied to leadership in his presentation to the Outreach Program, and the Sears Corporate Headquarters. These approaches can be applied not only in business but life in general. I will highlight three of the lessons that have impacted my career in the military
This research will explain how different leadership theories directly were applied to situations in the movie “Remember the Titans”. Although only a few of the theories were available at the time, the individuals exhibited sound leadership and follower ship identified by modern research on leadership. This paper will visit several leadership theories and methods from respected sources and compare and contras some situations to current situations experienced with modern theories.
In Moral Leadership, Sergiovanni shows how creating a new leadership practice--one with a moral dimension built around purpose, values, and beliefs--can transform a school from just an organization to a community. He believes that this "community" can inspire the kinds of commitment, devotion, and service from all stakeholders that can make our schools great. Sergiovanni explains the importance of justifying emotion and getting in touch with basic values and connections with others. He reveals how true collegiality, based on shared work and common goals, leads to an interdependence occurring naturally among
In this paper I will identify and explain the leadership concepts that I learned in this class using characters from the film Finding Nemo. To do so I will provide examples of transformative leadership and describe the impact it had on others. I will also explain how the characters acquired their leadership effectiveness by identifying experiences that were instrumental in their leadership development.
Imagine yourself as one person trying to totally reinvent the way that families are entertained. I will be talking to you about a farmer that became an animator. A farmer as a visionary leader, impressive. That is the story of Walt Disney. By all rights, Walt Disney was an excellent animator, but he had the self-awareness to know that he could not make his vision a reality on his own. I believe that Walt Disney is a visionary leader and I will show you how he used “Team Building”, “a group organized to work together”, (Thomas N. Barnes Center, 2012)(p.2) skills, “Diversity”, “a composite of individuals characteristics, experiences, and abilities”, (Thomas N. Barnes Center, 2012)(p.3) skills, and Full Range Leadership Development, “Contingent Reward”, “When the follower fulfills the leader’s expectation, a reward is provide to reinforce the demonstrated positive behavior.”,(Thomas N. Barnes Center, 2012),(p.14) skills to inspire people to buy into his vision and motivate others to help him accomplish his vision. I informed you earlier that I believe Walt Disney is a visionary leader, but that doesn’t make him an ethical leader. Through Walt Disney’s violation of “Honest”, “the bottom line is we don’t lie”, (United States Air Force Core Values, 1997), (p.1), “Openness”, “the free flow of
Today’s potential leaders who have enhanced there skill with education in leadership, believe in the elements that they 've learned. The rational, technical reducible in today 's marketplace could be ill-equipped without the proper motivation and mentoring because motivation of followers isn 't created out of thin air. It’s accomplished by aligning individuals and members who take pride in their contributions and have an understanding of shared goals and values.
Woody quickly becomes jealous and insecure with the arrival of Buzz and this turns him into a bully. Not the characteristics expected of a Disney hero. This is shown in the way Woody constantly ridicules Buzz making fun of his name and teases him maliciously about the fact he thinks he actually is a space ranger. This brings us on to Buzz. He is super confidant and suffers from delusions of grandeur. However although he may be a little irritating he is still likeable, cheerful and helpful. He has too much confidence in own abilities. This is why when he sees the advertisement for Buzz Lightyear Action figures he completely loses his will to live and is unable to do anything. This is another theme that self belief has a reflection in what you are able to do as they both find out at the end in that when they have confidence in themselves they are able to rise above seemingly insurmountable obstacles in rescuing Buzz and getting back to Andy. Another theme is that of appearances being deceptive. Woody and Buzz immediately consider the toys in Sid’s room as evil. The audience also get this feeling. Not only do they look disturbing but also they are also associated with Sid who is the main evil character. Despite their initial fears, Woody and Buzz are soon convinced that Sid’s warped creations are also prisoners and are in fact friends. It turns out that without the intervention of Sid’s toys Sid would
Overall, through ‘Transformational Leadership’, Walt openly communicated his vision into the infrastructure of Disney and instilled values and a sense of purpose among his employees. With a wanted trust and respect for followers, he was able to encourage and challenge traditional methods to harness better, innovative ways to solutions (Flower 1991). Ruling by consensus, his consideration for the individual needs of his followers made him an ideal teacher and coach for his enterprise (Davis 2008).