Invictus Worksheet Essay

Invictus Worksheet

To facilitate development and expression of ideas, each response must be no less than seven sentences.

Questions

1. Identify and describe the leadership styles demonstrated by the two main characters: Nelson Mandela and Francois Pienaar. What social and organizational expectations of leadership where they operating under?

In my perspective, the leadership styles that both Nelson Mandela and Francois Pienaar demonstrated in the film was charismatic leadership style because they both had strong convictions and can inspire others toward a mutual purpose with their “magnetic charm”. For example, after Francois Pienaar team lost a match they were in the locker room drinking bad tasting beer. At that moment Francois used the beer as the “taste of defeat” symbol. He told the team to drink it because this is the last time they will taste defeat. This scene in the movie showed

For example, Mandela used compassion when he approached the sport association that wanted to get rid of the rugby team. He thought the best way to approach the issue was with compassion and sounding sincere to get his point across. Mandela explained how getting rid of the rugby team will only cause more racial divide and cooperation must occur to create change. Unfortunately, not everyone was on his side but it was a small milestone that later on turn around the negative view of the rugby team to positive and cause not only a world cup win but unity in South Africa. This also shows the social and organizational expectations that Mandela faced during his leadership. He was expected to unite the country and find a way to distinguish racial divide and he did through an astounding use of a rugby