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Remember the Titans Leadership Styles
In Remember the Titans there are many examples of authoritarian, delegative, and participative leadership styles. There will be two thorough examples for each type of leadership style. I will then identify an effective leader. I will also identify an ineffective leader. After that I will talk about two characters that leadership styles changed through the movie.
An authoritarian leader is a leader is someone who doesn’t take input from the group, but makes decisions based on what they think is best for the group. One of the many authoritarian leaders in this movie is Julius because he was telling everyone on the bus ride to camp to shut up. Another example that Julius is authoritarian is when Gary asks about Julius’s family so they don’t have to keep doing three a day practices Julius decided to not talk about his family because he knew Gary didn’t really want to know about him and just wanted to not have to do practices. He also still put a poster up in his room he shared with Gary during camp even though Gary told him to take it down. Another authoritarian leader is Gary because he had the team huddle up at practice and he
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yelled at Ray because he didn’t run a play right. Both Julius and Gary are authoritarian because they did what they thought was best for them and their team. A participative leader takes in the groups input but still makes the final decision. A character that is a participative leader is Louie because when he sat by the African American teammates and Julius asked, “why don’t you sit with your own people”. Louie reply’s, “ I don’t have people, you are all my people”. He and Blue gave the team a speech about if they can’t come together outside of camp then none of them are winners. The team comes back together after they give the speech. Another character that is a participative leader is Gary’s girlfriend Emma because she listened to Gary when he said she should try to get to know the black players. Right before a game she shakes Julius’s hand and this shows progress in the fact she didn’t want to talk to any of the black players. Both Louie and Emma are participative because they take the input of what their team says but make the final design based on what they believe is right for the team and themselves. A delegative leader is a leader that gives members tasks based on their skills and let’s the members make decisions.
A delegative leader in the book is Coach Boone because he gave the Coach Yoast the defence coach job. Another time when Boone was delegative was when Coach Yoast tried to give Boone his output Boone says, “you worry about your defense and I’ll worry about my offence”. One other example of a delegative leader is the school board because they thought he would do good at being a coach and they were right because at the end Coach Yoast says, “ You're the right man for the job” to Coach Boone. Both Coach Boone and the school board are two examples of delegative leaders because they gave tasks to different people based on skill and thought by putting in those skills the team would
thrive. One effective leader through the movie is Coach Yoast because he wasn’t going to stay after they made Boone the coach but he was persuaded when all of the boys said they wouldn’t play if he wasn’t the coach. So he became the defence coach and all the boys stayed. He is an effective leader because he got all the boys to stay in the team and not ruin their future as football players. One ineffective leader is Fred because during a game they took his son out and replaced him with a black player. He was furious and yelled at the coaches for doing it saying to never take his son out again. Coach Yoast didn’t really care because he thought it was best for the team and didn’t listen to Fred at all. A character whose leadership changed through the movie is Gary. Gary started out as Authoritarian because he told Julius to take down a poster in their room during camp and started a fight when he wouldn’t take it down. Another character whose leadership changed is Coach Yoast because in the beginning when Coach Boone tells him that he should be the defense coach he just says, “night coach” and he wasn’t going to do it. He did what he thought was best for himself without any output or anything so he was an authoritarian leader. When he announces he isn’t going to help coach this season all the boys talk about how they aren't going to play without him so he took in their output and decided to be the defense coach so he turned into a participative leader. Authoritarian, participative and delegative leaders are all very different but they all have one thing in common. They all end up doing what is best for themselves and the team. Several characters in the movie Remember the Titans show different leadership styles. Many of the characters also switch to different leadership styles throughout the movie. There are many more examples of characters being one type of leader but in the end it really matters on who can actually be a successful leader.
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