We Were ‘In Good Company’
I’ve used Netflix for almost a year, but I can’t recall the movie which I could remember for the years. But yesterday I happen to watch ‘In Good Company’ which I randomly picked from the Local Library turns out to be surprisingly VERY good one. A nicely crafted 109 min blended with melodious sound track playing along.
The thing is there aren’t many movies which deal with corporate world and at same time personal life issues while drawing the fine line between them. The movie deals with various corporate scenarios like mergers & acquisitions, takeovers, impact of down-sizing & layoffs on human lives, employee’s fear of loosing a job in late years of life. Even some where it mentions about a 360 degree Evaluations process.
The movie is delightful to watch due to its humorous handling of such serious subject add-on to that are the funny dialogues between the characters. Few of thems are
about Layoffs:
Carter Duryea: I'm gonna have to let some people go.
Dan Foreman: Why do you say let them go? They don't WANT to go. Why don't you just say fire them?
Carter Duryea: Because it sounds better.
Dan Foreman: Not to the person getting fired it doesn't.
about perfect marriage:
Carter Duryea: Dan, you seem to have the perfect marriage. How do you do it?
Dan Foreman: You just pick the right one to be in the foxhole with, and then when you're outside of the foxhole you keep your dick in your pants.
Carter Duryea: That's poetic.
While watching the movie, you might hear the word 'Synergy' quite a few times. Well, the Film was originally titled Synergy, but changed because a survey administered at various test screenings proved that 9 out of 10 people don't know what the word "synergy" means.
Synergy refers to the phenomenon in which two or more discrete influences or agents acting together create an effect greater than that predicted by knowing only the separate effects of the individual agents.
Corporate synergy occurs when corporations interact congruently. A corporate synergy refers to a financial benefit that a corporation expects to realize when it merges with or acquires another corporation. This type of synergy is a nearly ubiquitous feature of a corporate acquisition and is a negotiating point between the buyer and seller that impacts the final price both parties agree to.
