INDIAN MANAGEMENT LESSONS
FROM
BOLLYWOOD INDUSTRY
Bollywood, the nickname for
Hindi film industry, is not just creating films for entertainment with all that
masala stuff but depicting the lessons for life. Some of them are great
inspiration for the society as well as acts as an unflattering mirror to our
ever-changing society.
Some of
bollywood movies place really good example of Indian management likeChak De, Swades, Lagaan, and many others.
The movie “Chak De India”
starring Shahrukh Khan and a bunch of endearing young women made an entry in
the books of management and attracted the world of management professionals.
3 IDIOTS
Management Lessons from ‘3
Idiots’ Movie
·
Never Try to Be Successful
Success is the bye-product.
Excellence always creates success. So, never run after the success, let it
happen automatically in the life.
Freedom To Life
Don’t die before actual
death. Live every moment to the fullest as you are going to die today night.
Life is gifted to humankind to live, live & live @ happiness.
·
Passion Leads To Excellence
When your hobby becomes your
profession and passion becomes your profession. You will be able to lead up to
excellence in the life.
Satisfaction, pleasure, joy
and love will be the outcome of following passion. Following your passion for
years, you will surely become something one day.
·
Life Is Emotion Management Not
Intelligence Optimization
Memory and regular study have
definite value and it always helps you in leading a life. You are able to
survive even if you can make some mark in the path of the life. With artificial
intelligence, you can survive and win but you cannot prove yourself genius.
Therefore, in this process genius dies in you.
·
Necessity Is The Mother Of
Invention
Necessity creates pressure
and forces you to invent something or to make it happen or to use your
potentiality.
Aamir Khan in this film, 3
idiots, is able to prove in the film by using vacuum pump at the last moment.
·
Simplicity is Life
Life is need base never want
base. Desires have no ends. Simplicity is way of life and Indian culture highly
stresses on simple living and high thinking, and this is the way of life: ‘Legs
down to earth and eyes looking beyond the sky’
·
Industrial Leadership
Dean of the institute in 3
idiots is showing very typical leadership. He has his own principles, values
and ideology, and he leads the whole institute accordingly. This is an example
of current institutional leadership. In the present scenario, most of the
institutes are fixed in a block or Squarish thinking.
·
Importance Of One Word In
Communication
If communication dies,
everything dies. Each word has impact and value in communication. One word if
used wrongly or emphasized wrongly or paused at a wrong place in communication
what effect it creates and how is it affected is demonstrated very well in this
movie.
Lagaan
Lagaan is the
story of a leader (Bhuvan) who develops the cricket team,did not known
about western management, do not have any idea about TQM, or but he developed
the team spirit, united all the villagers, motivated them and ultimately
attained the objective i.e. won the match against the British because to
win the match, to create an affective team was his sadhana and he attained his goal.
v A Lesson in Entrepreneurship:
The protagonist in the movie
i.e. Bhuvan’s character is risk taking, responsible, confident, encouraging;
supportive with a ‘never say die’ attitude which is an intrinsic character for
any manager.
It was the village ingenuity
of Bhuvan that gave him the idea to challenge the British in a cricket match
and getting exempted from the tax “Lagaan” levied on them. Otherwise the
villagers couldn’t have payed the tax in aftermath of a drought. Such risk
taking and “thinking out of the box” is required for every new venture or a
commercial startup.
v A Lesson In Teamwork
The relentless pursuit of
Bhuvan coupled with some team spirit and co-operation made the villagers form a
cricket team. A cricket team that went on to beat an established, professional
and well equipped British team. Bhuvan upholded this saying throughout
“fear not; only believe”.
Giving his vision to his team
that they can win and get through the tax debt by winning a cricket match was
key element that how to handle a team. Convincing people is very tough; the way
Bhuvan did it was really very good.
The learnings from Bhuvan’s team can be.
The learnings from Bhuvan’s team can be.
“spirit and power of team work”
“will power and determination”
“unity and focus on common
goal”
v A lesson of relentless spirit
to fight
There was terrible start to
Bhuvans cricket match idea. The problem was villagers didn’t know how to play
it …some couldn’t wield the bat. But Bhuvan with the help of Elizabeth led them
secretly to a real cricket match of the British team and later on emulated that
in their own fields.
The team later on learnt by
imitating Bhuvan and managed to get hold of the game. This gives an important
lesson “Accept the challenge, be open-minded”. It tells us even if you don’t
know something you can learn and achieve it what is needed is perhaps the zeal
and willingness to learn.
Other lessons that we can
learn & teach from the movie.
·
The importance of learning to
survive & win.
·
The importance of accepting
& working with diversity.
·
The need for a “can do” spirit, a positive attitude and the importance of fighting the
typical Indian despondency.
·
The need to stay focused
single-mindedly on Results
the importance of being objective & unbiased.
the importance of being objective & unbiased.
·
The importance of trust despite
betrayal.
·
The importance of learning to
manage and work with limitations and minimum resources.
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