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Chris Moore - Decision-making
Well I seem to have survived last week okay. Thanks for all the support and posts. I still think public embarrassment is not the right way to go, but sometimes I lose control. Even though I still cannot believe some of the stuff that was going on, it was a hard situation and I know everyone meant well.
This week is more of my trying to right the ship. What you see is me struggling to show everyone a way to work where you are held accountable for what you say and by being decisive. I made some decisions and some were wrong, but they were decisions.
First, I chose baseball in the face of rain, and boy was I wrong. It poured. Now, had I been there we would have moved to a cover set since the rain did not let up. But still, I take the blame for the call to go baseball. Why did I do it? First, because the crew was most prepared for baseball. Second, the director did not want to go to the cover set of the hospital. Third, I felt a decision had to be made and the decision-making group on this movie was just too big and too indecisive. Sometimes a decision needs to be made more than the right decision needs to be made.
I really believe that leadership comes from being able to make decisions and take the heat and admit when you are wrong. I was wrong about both the baseball and bringing Jeff home. I wanted to bring him home because I needed to clear up the decision-making group, and he was the only one I could remove from the top. I was unaware of how Pete Biagi was manipulating the situation. I could not remove Pat, as he had a financial responsibility to the film, as the Line Producer. I could not remove Pete -- he was the director. I thought maybe if Pat did not have Jeff to fight with, he might make the right decisions.
I just could not figure out why Pete, Pat and Jeff could not communicate better. But I have come to see, and you will see it in the next few episodes, that the real communication breakdown was between Biagi and Jones and the rest of the production. It is too bad this could not get fixed, because it turned out to be the biggest breakdown of the film.
Poor Jeff was the scapegoat and he really did nothing wrong. He just was not helping the process. If you read this week's feature article on the balance of power, there is an analogy of film production to pro football. I really should have acted like the owner not the head coach, and should have set up the three guys in Chicago so that they understood their roles. My fault. So again, I apologize to Jeff for putting him through that, and I apologize to Pete for not seeing the issue and not getting the production on better footing.
Please read the feature article this week to better understand the balance of power on a movie, and please keep watching. The shooting is getting intense and the tension on set is making relationships hot.
As always thanks for reading. . . .
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