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Jerry Maguire (1996)

Jerry Maguire features a successful sports agent who recognizes his industryÆs values leave him unfulfilled personally. Jerry experiences an epiphany after an insightful experience with the son of one of the injured hockey players he represents. This moves him to a new vision and mission for his company, Sports Management Incorporated (SMI). Labeled, The Things We Think and Do Not Say: The Future of Our Business, the mission statement focuses on greater personal relationships over profits. Jerry gets fired for the effort at transforming the company, but opens his own agency that will become successful in seeing his vision to fruition. Along the way, he earns the admiration and loyalty of follower Dorothy Boyd because he inspired her and makes her belief in her work. JerryÆs traits and leadership style exhibited in the film are akin to those associated with transformational leadership. JerryÆs ability to motivate and inspire followers to implement his vision that empowers them to develop potentiality is the hallmark of transformational leadership. As Bass (1990) maintains, transformational leaders enable ôàfollowers [to] transcend their own immediate self-interests, increase their awareness of the larger issues, and shift the goals away from personal safety and security toward achievement and self-actualizationö (652).

JerryÆs leadership style is marked by emotional intelligence in comparison to the other agents at his firm, like Bob Sugar, a backstabbing, insensitive, self-interested agent who betrays Jerry. According to Hughes, Ginnett, and Curphy (2002), emotional intelligence may be defined as ôàa group of mental abilities that help people to recognize their own feelings and those of othersö (198). Jerry desires transformation of his agency because he is tired of the focus on profits at the expense of the feelings of others and human relationships. When he is fired and his future looks bleak, Jerry tells Ro...

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