Movies are more than entertainment. Join Srinivas Vijayaraghavan, the author of the book “Filmy Manager” as he walks you through all that you can learn from movies, one movie at a time
Seeking help to take care of Mental Health - Dear Zindagi
I speak to mental health expert Vinay Nair on Kaira’s journey of self-awareness in the movie Dear Zindagi, which brings to light mental health issues, our struggles with them and how we seek help and deal with them
25 Oct 2020
Up in the Air - preparing to fire or be fired
In a career there are moments where we let people go or find ourselves being fired. How do we deal with that? A look at the world of firing people for a living through the work of Ryan Bingham
18 Oct 2020
Cool Runnings - the audacity of dreams and leaders who seek redemption through them
A sun-kissed Jamaica wants to send a bobsleigh team to the wonder Olympics. Their coach is a man who had to leave the sport because he had cheated. Great lessons on making bizarre dreams come true while redeeming yourself
4 Oct 2020
Om Shanti Om - a look at past life regression as a healing technique
We look at rebirth and continuity as more than Bollywood tropes and understand them by looking at past life regression analysis with her help of our guest, Deepti Arora, founder Healclinic.in
27 Sept 2020
Lawrence of Arabia - going beyond one’s job description to achieve success
T.E. Lawrence was immortalised in this David Lean masterpiece where a low ranking British Officer goes beyond his job description to script an Arab revolution that many a General could not. Attitude determines Altitude
13 Sept 2020
Rocky III - Mid-career crisis and re-discovering the Beginner’s Mind
After several successful title defences, Rocky Balboa finds himself upstaged by a younger, hungrier fighter and needs to dig deep to re-discover the “eye of the tiger”
3 Sept 2020
First Man - an exploration of stoicism and its benefit to leadership and its side effects
Neil Armstrong in “First Man” is projected as a first-rate stoic, something that gives him the edge on a life and death mission but also alienated him from his loved ones equally
30 Aug 2020
A Wednesday - leader behaviour in a crisis
Leadership faces its toughest test when confronted with a crisis. Commissioner Rathod plays a car and mouse game with a terrorist to safeguard Mumbai and demonstrates the behaviour and thinking of crisis-produced lewdership
26 Aug 2020
Other People’s Money - theory of the firm, hostile takeovers, mergers and acquisitions
We look at Larry the Liquidator as he tries to buy an aeging yet asset-rich family-run company and how it brings out the conflict in defining the purpose of the existence of firms.
23 Aug 2020
Lakshya - building one’s self-concept before leading a team
Leadership can be learnt and the most self-aware leaders are effective in appealing to the self-concept of their followers in motivating them. We trace Karan Shergill’s journey towards a stronger self-concept and leadership
22 Aug 2020
Greyhound - balancing between data and common sense
Tom Hanks as Commander Krause gives us a lesson on how to be an “informed skeptic” while taking decisions that affect the lives of thousands of crew members
21 Aug 2020
The Founder - why copycats find more success than originals?
Join me as we look at the back story of Ray Kroc, who founded McDonald’s but not before learning the ropes from the McDonald brothers who were put out of business by him
20 Aug 2020
Master and Commander - an exploration of organisational cults
Is your Organization a cult? And your leader behaving like a cult leader? We explore cult-like leaders as we look at Capt Jack Aubrey who was leading his men into unchartered waters to settle a score.
18 Aug 2020
Chak De - Leadership Rebound and the Theory of the Redemptive Self
How do leaders rebound from failures? Join me as we look at how Kabir Khan constructs a series of redemptive sequences to regain lost glory
17 Aug 2020
Lagaan - how leaders believe and get their teams to believe
Bhuwan debunks the “Great Man” theory of leadership to demonstrate a vision that none of his contemporaries shared and then worked with them towards the objective of beating the British at their game to get a tax break for his village
16 Aug 2020
Gunjan Saxena - how far can the truth be stretched?
A military biopic that should have inspired women to take up a career in the armed forces has turned into an inauthentic and disputable take on the life of a brave helicopter pilot. What can we learn from it?
16 Aug 2020
Filmy Manager Podcast Intro
Are movies just about entertainment? I don’t think so. Join me every week as I dissect one popular movie at a time and walk you through all that you can learn from it, apart from getting entertained
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