The first stage, forming, is the development in which people join the group and define the group’s purpose, structure, and leadership. All five of these stages have a particular scene during the movie that demonstrates what occurs in that stage. Group development is a process that consists of five separate stages forming, storming, norming, performing and finally adjourning. Strategic planning and thinking can easily get confused, but to dumb it down and explain it the easiest, thinking is a broad idea of how and who will be used in a vision before you start planning and working out the details needed to carry out that vision. At this point they start developing a vision of how this heist is going to be pulled off, but first they need to go talk to Rueben, one because he has money, and second, because he knows more about casino security than anybody they know. Rusty then starts naming off people that they would need to start pulling on these cons. Strategic planning is implementing a vision and the details of getting from point A to point B for the vision, but during this scene they haven’t started planning yet, just thinking of what it is going to take to pull off this heist.

Strategic thinking comes before strategic planning. But in his head he is beginning to create a vision on how they would even imagine pulling this off.

As they are looking and studying the vault, Rusty says, this is quite possibly the least accessible vault in the world. The very next scene you see Rusty and Danny looking at a blueprint of the vault for the Bellagio.Īt this is the point when strategic thinking begins to kick in. This scene is when Danny reveals what he wants to rob and is telling Rusty about it. The scene from the movie that demonstrates strategic thinking is after Danny beats Rusty and other people in poker, Danny and Rusty go out for what appears to be a cup of coffee. Strategic thinking is the process to create a vision and blueprint for that vision, creative thinking includes being creative, disruptive, and future focused. Some of the management concepts that I found in the movie were strategic thinking, personality, task groups, group development, risk, creativity and innovation, Type A & B personalities, organizational change, decision implementation, and expectancy theory. If you look at the movie in general, this is a great movie to choose and reflect on management concepts because there is a wide-range of concepts used in the movie. In Ocean’s Eleven, there are many management techniques throughout the entire movie, during which they rob $160 million dollars from three casinos in Las Vegas.

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