Gung Ho (1986)

In "Gung Ho," Michael Keaton plays Hunt Stevenson, a resident of a small town called Hadleyville that is in the midst of a severe economic depression. The town's single main employer, an automobile manufacturing plant, has closed, and Hunt has been recruited by his fellow townspeople to travel to Japan to persuade the Assan Motor Company to take over, reopen the factory, and revitalize the town.

Hunt is obviously a born leader, the kind of enthusiastic, optimistic person who inspires others to think big. He is also clueless about the larger world and the chances of his plan actually succeeding. At the start of the film, his optimism and "can do" attitude carry him 14,000 miles to plead his case before a boardroom filled with executives who speak a different language, literally and in their approach to doing business.

Despite his ineptitude as a salesman, his leadership zeal convinces the Japanese to accept his

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n when they are hard to hear. Hunt's major concern is for his people, and this brings him into direct conflict with his Japanese bosses. He is concerned with production only to the extent that meeting goals helps him keep his job. By contrast, the Japanese management style shown here is concerned with production. To these leaders, personal satisfaction comes only from meeting quotas. Hunt's leadership style helps bring these two diverse cultures and leadership styles together. Yet, were he more sensitive to the differences, he might have been able to make the transition go smoother. He lacks some perception, empathy for different ways of doing things, and an openness that might have facilitated the process. In the end, however, his leadership style and example inspires the workers to return to their jobs and the head of Assan to appreciate his unique way of building a team. In the end, Hunt's leadership style proves effective. Hunt Stevenson's personality is aggressively extraverted. He is a people-pleaser, sometimes to the point of sacrificing everything else. At the start of the film, he sets off for Japan promising to accomplish a job he has no idea how to do, simply because he does not want to let anybody in Had
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