Change Leadership SBNM 5990
Watch the following Movie then Answer the following:
The movie Pleasantville, 1998
Drama/Fantasy
1. Paradigm Theory (Barker)/Mental Models (Senge)
- What was Bud’s (David’s) pre-Pleasantville paradigm?
- What was Mary Sue’s (Jennifer’s)?
- Describe the paradigm shift experienced by the two lead characters. What was the new paradigm for each?
- Describe a scene that illustrates the concept of the paradigm effect.
- Who were the paradigm shifters? Explain
- Who were the paradigm pioneers? Explain
- Which of the pioneers do you believe had the greatest courage?Explain
2. Senge – Learning Organization
- Which character do you believe developed the greatest Personal Mastery (Senge, 2006)? Explain.
- What is Shared Vision (Senge, 2006)? How did it develop?
- What is Team Learning (Senge, 2006)? Give examples of when it was occurring?
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3. Olson & Eoyang
- Examine Pleasantville as a Complex Adaptive System (Olson & Eoyang, 2001).
- Explain how order emerged, beginning at the micro-level. What relationships, interactions and small experiments expedited the growth of the change? Change Leadership SBNM 5990
- Explain how the hierarchical attempts to provide order failed.
- What scenes from the film illustrated.:
- that the systems history was irreversible?
- that the system’s future was unpredictable?
- Although change started slowly at the beginning, towards the end of the film there was a moment when the system shifted dramatically to a new pattern. When and how did that occur?
4. Systems Archetypes
- Which of the System’s Archetypes (Senge, 2006/Kim & Anderson, 1998) were operational in the film? Name at least three and explain. Detail the variables of the archtypes and the associated change over time diagrams.