PICTURES, MUSIC AND MOVIES IN TRAINING
Barbara Bertagni and Fernando Salvetti

This article covers a case that has been dedicated to the top management of the firm and characterized, first, by an initial phase of “Socratic dialogue,” a philosophic method used to explore the characteristics of efficient leadership. A dialogue which took place in a particular way called “maieutics” and which requires from the educationalist to be silent as much as possible, just to facilitate wide and tight confrontation between the interlocutors, starting from their experiences and their personal beliefs.
In this case, the dialogue was focused on the efficient leadership and, with the purpose to raise the discussion, the instruments utilized were a series of particularly evocative pictures of history and news (from David’s Napoleon to a few representations of Jesus Christ), from a few pieces of music containing a lot of variations on the same theme (most of them performed by Gidon Kraemer and by his orchestra, the Kremerata Baltica) and by short movie strips with characters facing moments of particularly intense work life (from Wolf with Jack Nicholson and Michelle Pfeiffer, from Presumed Guiltless with Harrison Ford and from Mediterranean with Diego Abatantuono).