I'm also a big fan of Down Periscope; it always gives me good laughs whenever I see it. I recommended it to a co-worker years ago, who happened to be an industrial psychologist; the take away from the psychologist was it was not only a good comedy movie, it also was a lesson in team leadership and adaptive management: a person is assigned to lead a less than desirable project, is given a motley and eccentric crew; he manages, by interacting with the crew members individually, to find their strengths and weaknesses and recognizes them; he forges a sense of united purpose and a sort of familial bond; in the face of problems, he adapts what would have been perceived as 'problems' in the individual crew members by other officers as possible solutions to the problems and adapts their peculiar abilities to the task; he also proactively works to reinforce the confidence of the crew by expressing his confidence in their abilities, particularly the dive officer...
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