When Vito Corleone ascends the throne as “Don”, he
is not arrogating himself with power; yet power smoothly follows to him from
the way he articulates and the way he negotiates with friends and foes.
In contrast with what Mao Tse Tung has famously said “power grows out of the barrel of the gun”, Don Corleone adopts milder business negotiation style packed with real sense of power. Here is an example!
Amerigo Bonasera is an undertaker and log time acquaintance of Don Corleone yet is unwilling to show allegiance to the Don due to his fear that he would be branded as a capo of Corleone family. One day he finds his daughter Maria brutally beaten by his boyfriend and his gang for refusing to have sex with them. Her pitiful condition was aggravated by the fact that the perpetrators escaped from being punished by courts duly, due to their wealthy background. Incidentally, Don Corleone’s wife Carmela has previously become godmother to Maria.
Bonasera reaches out to Don Corleone on daughter’s wedding day of the Don and pleads for help from him and in the course of conversation offers him financial incentives to do justice for his stricken daughter. Don Corleone understands the perspectives of the situation and skilfully navigates in his business communication, saying:
“Bonasera! Bonasera! What I have done to make you treat me so disrespectfully? If you’d come to me in friendship this scum who ruined your daughter would be suffering the very day.
And if by any chance any honest man like yourself made enemies they would become my enemies. And then they would fear you.
Some day and that day may never come, I will call upon you to do a service for me. Until that day accept this justice as a gift on my daughter’s wedding day”.
Hearing this, Bonasera accepts Vito Corleone as Don and displays fealty to him. Immediately afterwards, the criminals involved in this case were given the treatment similar to what they have done to Maria and the case was closed forever. In long term Bonasera has become a great admirer and lover of Don Corleone!
Cheers!
Muthu
Ashraff Rajulu
Business Strategist
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