Allen’s Film Reviews for Summer 2010 #3: The A-Team
Darn it but I loved The A-Team as a boy! For me, this was the film of the summer. Reviews have been mixed. This reflects my own judgment of the final product. But as a concept it still has class! In a venture like this, casting is everything, more important than plot or even dialogue. They had to look and feel the part, they had to have that chemistry of camaraderie that gave The...
Read MoreNo More Heroes? #2
In the first post of this series, No More Heroes? #1, I introduced the concept of post-heroic leadership and gave some reasons for its rise. I also suggested that I have a problem with it, and here it is. I don’t like the name.Now this might strike you as rather feeble. Who cares what a thing is named? It’s the meaning that matters! The purpose of a name is to point to the...
Read MoreI Love It When An Archetype Comes Together #3
Previously in I Love It When An Archetype Comes Together (1) & (2) … I’ve tried to show how the idea of a perfect team consisting of ‘ideal types who fulfil set function’ is hardwired into the human mind. Maybe you’ve found it interesting. But what does it have to do with business? Whether you work for a small business or as part of a project within a larger...
Read MoreI Love It When An Archetype Comes Together #2
In the previous episode, I claimed that there were deep parallels between the A-Team, The Three Musketeers, and Monkey. I had suspected this for some time. But it clicked with me after reading a book called King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine by Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette. In it, the authors examine “the four mature archtypes: the...
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