Today (I wrote the beginning of this text on the 8th of September, 2023), I decided to present one of the texts I omitted earlier. The title of the old post was “Polish Tango.”
I wrote the “Polish Tango” text on the 2nd of March, 2018. Why did I omit this text? I must be honest: I do not remember. After returning to the text after over five years, I decided to present it as I wrote it.
Ladies and Gentlemen, here you have the “Polish Tango” text:
I am inspired to write this blog post because of the last time I saw the short Polish movie ‘Tango.’ Zbigniew Rybczynski directed this film in 1980. Interestingly, Rybczynski is the first Pole to win the Oscar Prize Academy winner. He won the statue thanks to the film, as mentioned earlier. For me, Zbigniew Rybczynski’s masterpiece is one of the oddest movies I have ever seen. The first thoughts that came to my mind after watching the film are the similarities with the atmosphere of the offices of corporations. For me, working in corporations is familiar with the film. We see chaos and order simultaneously. Almost all corporations have policies, rules, laws, or procedures. It seems like everything is in order and well-organized inside the company. Often, it is not.
This relatability makes the ‘Tango’ movie and the corporate environment so intriguing.
Working in a corporation is often a neverending problem resolving, fire extinguishing. I love the names of these things: helping with issues or solving cases. Moreover, managing the corporation is usually like crisis management. You must become a corporation to be part of the ‘second family.’ You have to be there physically and spend as much time as possible. Like in the ‘Tango’ movie, time and place are crucial to understanding what is happening. But you can’t do that. You can’t understand the eternal chaos prevailing in our world. What’s most interesting is that this chaos is constructed by something or by someone. We will never find out by whom. We are not able to do that.
What I know is that all that surrounds us is planned and constructed with perfect precision chaos.
Substitute for this chaos we can spot both in corporations and Zbigniew Rybczynski’s ‘Tango’ movie. If you do not know what I mean, try to join the corporation or watch the 1983 Oscar Academy Awards Polish masterpiece winner. The mystery of this chaos is what makes both the ‘Tango’ movie and the corporate environment so bewitching.
