As a leadership guru, Mr Kotter is at pains to show that Konosuke Matsushita's personal hardships and misfortunes a poverty-stricken childhood, the early loss of both parents, the death of a son left life-long scars of pain, anger, shame and humiliation.

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If the ending works it's on the basis that these two very different men recognize and respond to an unlikely kinship: the shame of a father, the pain of a son.

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