Tuckmann’s stages of forming-storming-norming-performing-adjourning are nicely explained through this re-cut of Remember the titans.
The stages in plain english: whoop there’s a group – we oversteer – we balance out – we do our stuff – we leave.
Looking forward to intergroup relations, I am trying to reset my thoughts about movies like Transformers (2007) and StarTrek (2009), recognizing the small groups now, together with re-priorizing loyalties and constant balancing of sovereignties. Loyalties and sovereignties seem to carefully switch between protagonists and antagonists,·between humans and even inanimate objects, within the dimensions of place, time and decision making unit (on individual, team, group and GROUP levels).
Of course, these are made up storylines and pre-fabricated group behavior. Nevertheless they’ve originated from a human perspective, assuming JJ Abrams and his colleages don’t use an army of typing monkeys when taking hold of us and trying to max out our attention spans.
