Flashpoint: When Values Collide Featuring Morris Massey

Produced

• 1995

Key Features

73 minute VHS or DVD video

There's only one Morris Massey! With humor and candor, Dr. Massey cuts to the heart of our cultural taboos to demonstrate how myths about Sex, Ethnicity and Age (S-E-A) sabotage our personal and professional relationships.

Help team members develop shared values by recognizing their homegrown prejudices and accepting those of others. Unlike any other video, Flashpoint, at 73 minutes, triggers a test of reality signaling organizations and individuals of their potential for survival as the millennium dawns. Coming from 20+ years of helping millions better understand themselves, Morris Massey opens a flood of penetrating insights with a "S-E-A" view of contemporary values, conflicts and human behaviors. In a provocative blend of humor, directness, and honesty, the myths and taboos surrounding Sex - Ethnicity - and Age are pulled back in a distinctive, irreverent dissection of "Diversity" and "Values."

Morris Massey
Since the early 1970's, Dr. Massey has been working with and delivering programs about human behavior, with a particular focus ion values. He is known for his dynamic and energetic presentation style. His undergraduate and M.B.A. degrees are form the University of Texas, and his Ph.D. in business is from L.S.U. During the late 1960s and through the 1970s, as an Associate Dean and Professor of Marketing, he received four awards for teaching excellence.

More recently Dr. Massey was honored with the W.M. McFeely award presented by the International Management Council for "significant contribution to the filed of management and human relations." His dynamic and provocative presentation style has impacted audiences across the board form business, health care, government, education and community groups. His videotape series is acclaimed as a classic and have become benchmarks of excellence in the entire industry.

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KEY LEARNING POINTS

• Understand how sex, ethnicity and age affect relationships
• Dissect taboos about diversity issues
• Replace your prejudices with awareness

COMPLIMENTARY REVIEW
Stuck in your quality improvement efforts? Are you discovering that, when humans are involved, logic is not always persuasive or that "change would be easy if it weren't for all the people?" Are you ready for truthful, honest dialogue regarding the cultural (both work and personal) issues of quality? If so, I highly suggest that you at least preview these exciting (and to some, they will be mildly upsetting) videos. In quality transformation efforts at my institution, I have incorporated these two (Just Get It! and Flashpoint: When Values Collide) along with materials by Autry, Ralston, Smith and Turner into a "human elements of transformation" seminar that has been most enthusiastically received. - DAVIS BALESTRACCI, EYE ON IMPROVEMENT NEWSLETTER