The Longest Yard

The cover picture of the movie "The Longest
Yard". Photo owned by moviescounter.com

Frances Ouano Ponce

I just watched an inspiring movie titled "The Longest Yard" this morning. The movie is led by Adam Sandler.

The movie teaches you lot of lessons especially in leadership and teamwork.

Crewe (acted by Adam Sandler) is a good leader. Though he made as his first choice to serve himself by following the orders of the Warden to ensure that his team will lose the game and make way for the guards to have their victory-- he eventually resolved to set aside his own interest and focused for his team's victory.

That decision taught us two lessons about leadership: first is your people looks up to you as a leader and eventually lose motivation once they see that the leader looks only for his own interest; second is true leadership means sacrificing yourself for the benefit of your whole team.

Some organizations and corporations have great leaders who look for the welfare of the Company's stakeholders. These kind of organizations will grow limitless and eventually meet its goals. Company's led by selfish and arrogant leaders cannot grow and meet its goals no matter how much effort they make.

Achievement of goals is a collective effort where all people benefit from achieving those goals. That's true leadership and teamwork.