TV shows and movies can not only entertain us but can also teach us lessons about life and how we should behave. They can also teach us things that can be useful in both everyday life and in business. Planet of the Apes is popular movie franchise that has recently been rebooted from the classic film started Charlton Heston. There are many lessons that these movies can teach us, not only about ourselves but how we treat animals. The movie can also teach us lessons that we can use both in life and in business. One such lesson it can teach us is about setting and reaching goals.
The Planet of the Apes movies are full of leadership lessons that can be learned from the leader of the Apes, Caesar. Goal setting is just one of them. You can learn from Caesar many things useful for leadership, such as:
* Think before you act
* Verify assumptions
* Scars can make you strong; it’s up to you whether you let them, or if you let them consume you.
* Set a time limit for important decisions. Don’t make hasty decisions, as they can backfire on you. But you can let decisions drag on too long, either
* Stick together or lose everything. If people can’t work together or do what need to be done, things won’t get done.
* A person’s choice can have bad consequences. An employee can make a bad decision that is damaging to you and your reputation, and you’ll need to respond promptly.
* You may need to learn to trust those who you don’t trust.
* Tell the truth. Deceit is not a way to lead people, as the lies only lead to destruction when found out.
* Leadership requires taking a risk. Some choices you have to make will no doubt be risky.
* Be willing to take the blame and responsibility of the actions of those on your team.
When it comes to goals, Caesar has the one main goal of taking over the planet from the humans. But Caesar is very smart and very strategic. He knows that it will require strategic planning, which means setting shorter goals and smashing each of them in turn in order to reach his one large goal. We need to be able to do the same: have one large goal that we want to reach, but set and meet shorter goals in order to reach that one ultimate goal.
If you have a large, lofty goal that you want to reach, it can be hard to do it. We can easily get discouraged and dissuaded from it when we don’t seem to get anywhere in reaching that goal, and so we can easily give up on it. But if we plan it out and set shorter goals that lead to the larger goal, we can have a much easier time of it. The shorter goals can be easier to reach, and by checking off each one as we smash it, we can see we are making progress towards the larger goal and are encouraged to continue on to reach our ultimate goal.
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