6/10/2023 0 Comments Mutiny on the bounty captainThe mutineers cast Bligh and eighteen crewmembers adrift in a lifeboat. However, after departing Tahiti, and after a series of progressively more antagonistic acts towards the crew, they finally had enough and mutinied. ![]() To compound the problem, he considered maximum control as a means to achieve efficiency. As noted by Robert Webb, on his Motivation in the Workplace site in an article entitled “ Captain Bligh and Leadership ”, said “Bligh’s problems on the Bounty is an excellent example of how one man changed from control leadership to team unity in a matter of minutes.” Bligh “micro managing the HMS Bounty crew and wanted everyone to know he was the boss, which was more important to him than efficiency. However, it was Bligh’s leadership style that I want to focus on. The film is also the last movie to win Best Picture and no other awards.Ĭharles Laughton’s portrayal of Bligh, as Captain aboard the Bounty, was almost as a marionette. The movie was based on the first of The Bounty Trilogy, written by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, which also included Men Against the Sea and Pitcairn’s Island. In our first offering, we considered the 1935 version of Mutiny on the Bounty, which had the never before or since distinction of having three stars nominated for Best Actor, Clark Gable as Fletcher Christenson, Charles Laughton as Captain Bligh and Franchot Tone as Midshipman Roger Byam. Of course they also resonate for the Chief Compliance Officer (CCO). ![]() ![]() In this four-part series, host Richard Lummis and myself mine some of our favorites for modern day lessons which might be garnered for the business leader. In honor of February and its traditional run up to the Oscars, in my podcast on business leadership, 12 O’Clock High, a podcast on business leadership, I am exploring leadership lessons from Oscar-winning Best Pictures.
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