The movie Remember the Titans provides an excellent study of leadership principles and challenges in the imperfect environment typical [to] real-life leadership scenarios. Coach Boone is a great example of a leader. [Despite difficult school and community politics,] Boone [is able to create] good relationships between players, regardless of race. His vision for the team involves getting the players concerned in what the team needs to become. Coach Boone realizes [that in order to succeed], everyone [on the team] has to believe in and commit to a common purpose.
Boone and [his assistant coach] Yoast provide a good example of the difference between leaders and managers. The two coaches don 't see eye-to-eye on the best way to manage the team. Boone is a charismatic leader with a brutal, military-style approach to coaching. He believes in breaking the players down and then re-building them as a team. Yoast is more laid-back and conservative and feels Boone is pushing the players too hard. This difference in coaching styles leads to several confrontations between the two coaches and between the players. The clash between Boone and Yoast represents what can happen
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Each player on the team learns to have respect and loyalty for one another. They each become leaders on the football field and at school. Even assistant Coach Yoast comes around and starts to respect Boone 's management and leadership skills. The players and the assistant coach are learning you don 't sit and fight about something, you fix it. Coach Boone creates relationships with the players, which is crucial in management. The players finally see that Coach Boone has credibility, now players are motivated to work harder because he is so motivated towards the team. With everyone respecting each other, a clear vision of the goal and team work they are able to accomplish
What makes a speech effective? Using rhetoric, a person can appeal to others emotion and logic to persuade a person into doing a desired action. They can encourage a person into success or they can discourage a person into wanting to prove others wrong. The two speeches that will be discussed in this paper will be from Remember the Titans Gettysburg Speech and Glory Road Final game speech. The Gettysburg speech was made in the middle of movie.
Rhetorical Analysis of Remember the Titans In the movie Remember the Titans, Coach Boone states, that his players need to be unified together as a team, instead of being separated because of the color of their skin. He does this by using allusion, diction, and a rhetorical question. Boone uses a rhetorical question in line one when he states, “Anybody know what this place is?”
The Breakfast Club The breakfast club is a famous teen film directed by John Hughes. The Breakfast Club provides many concepts of adolescent struggles like identity issues, peer pressure, stereotypes, family relationships. The storyline follows five high school students from different social status meeting at their school’s library for Saturday detention. The film depicts Claire as the princess, Andrew as the jock, Brian as the brain, Allison as the basket case and Bender as the criminal. However, later in the film, they realize that they are more than what society portrays them and that they have more in common than they thought.
Wk11Assgn2JLayman: Final Research Paper Walden University Ph.D. Public Policy and Administration Introduction This paper serves as a reflection of the approaches, and theories reviewed as curriculum over the last 10 weeks as a student in the PPPA 8111: Leadership and Organizational Change graduate class at Walden University, and how each approach or theory relates to the author’s personal leadership style. The paper begins with a description of the author’s personal leadership style, in her own words, without reference to the materials in the curriculum. Next will be a determination of which approach or theory most resembles that of the author, which approach or theory covered in the texts that the author would most like to adopt, including
What was Coach Boone’s vision for the team? What significant events lead to Coach Boone achieving the vision he had for the Titans? What things did Coach Boone need to do in order to achieve his goal? Why was goal setting important in the titans achieving success?
However after camp and as the film progresses, you see Yoast beginning to warm up to Boone and begin to realize he knows what he is doing and is capable of doing it. The two coaches eventually but aside their differences and begin working well together as coaches. Some people though in the town, still are not in favor of Boone. For example the chairman of the school board, who informs Yoast just before the semi-finals for state, that he will do whatever it takes for T.C. Williams to take a loss, allowing Yoast to be inducted into the Hall
The film takes place in Alexandria, Virginia. Where racial tensions are high and one high school is forced to integrate through all the madness. T.C Williams is the new school with the football team being the main focus. The football team has not only players but also coaches as well who are black and white and must come together. Their willingness to come together will not only help them succeed on the field but also in the community.
Remember the Titans Film Review Remember the Titans is a classic movie based on a true story based in 1971 Alexandria, Virginia; about the struggles this newly integrated high school football team endure. This movie portrays many leadership themes throughout the movie; authentic, situational, and path-goal. (AUTHENTIC) One player who quickly emerges as a leader is Gerry Bertier; standing out for his personality and traits. He is team captain, passionate about everything he does and wants the best for not only the team as a whole but also the players as individuals.
Bill advocates for participatory decision making involving all the staff so that they are all involved. Bill serves under coach Boone and devotes himself to correct and warn him on the pressure he puts to the players. Despite schemes that are propagated by the school in order to halt coach Boone plans for the team, he remains positive and finds ways to overcome the negative handles. He leads with positive minded approach which later transforms the players to a winning team. The styles that are detrimental in the film include the authoritative leadership depicted by Boone and the prejudiced leadership which is evident in the whole community.
Kouzes, Barry Z. 2003) And Shackleton nailed all The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership. He modeled the way by never giving in to his negative emotions and always saw the positive side. Shackleton Inspired a Shared Vision by starting with a team fully committed to the adventure and making it a group project not just his own. The entire process was a challenge, how could Shackleton not have been challenging the process.
The true extent to Yoast’s undeniable leadership rooted in values is when he intentionally loses the Hall of Fame. Coach Yoast is presented with an ultimatum by the voting committee of the Hall of Fame, the white organization wants the Titans to lose the football game and warn Yoast about the events that are about to unfurl. In the Northern Virginia Regional Championship Game, Yoast takes a stronghold against the injustice by confronting the referee and states that he doesn’t care if he also gets dragged through the mud because his values and integrity are greater than his desire for recognition. As a result, Yoast motivates his defense through inspirational communication and as a result the other team is unable to move down the football field for the remainder of the
The movie, The Lion King, includes several different demonstrations of leadership theories. By following the story of a young lion, whose father is the king, and their “pride” or community, the film shows an array of different leadership approaches from two main leaders (Allers and Minkoff). The most prominent leaders in The Lion King are Mufasa, the king of the “pride lands” and the main character’s father, and Scar. Scar is Mufasa’s bitter and jealous brother that rules over the hyenas just outside of the “pride lands” (Allers and Minkoff). Between these two, very different leaders, the situational approach, the path-goal approach, and the transformational approach are all applied.
Boaz Yakin, the director of “Remember the Titans”, tell us the story of an American football team of a recently integrated high school. The team transitions from hating each other to becoming a brotherhood. A turning point in this transition is the run to Gettysburg, where coach Boone leads the boys on an early morning run before delivering a powerful speech. After this scene the boys start to respect each other, respect the coach and overcome adversity. Using visual and verbal techniques, Yakin teaches us to respect everyone no matter what race, and to be resilient in the face of adversity.
This action by the school board resulted in the demotion of the schools seasoned, Hall of Fame nominee; Bill Yoast (Caucasian). Coach Boone suggests to Yoast that he stay on as assistant head coach. Boone tells Yoast “I think it would go a long way to smooth things over” Yoast initially refuses but is humbled when his team communicates their plan to boycott the school if he can’t be their coach. What follows is a series of racially driven conflicts and it’s up to Boone to get them to see beyond race and work towards a common goal as a united team as they leave for football camp.
The qualities for a sports leader and by extension all other leaders