Nelson Mandela Invictus: South Africa's Rugby Team

This is an investigation on why people will appreciate you as a leader when you lead from behind and to put others in front when nice things occur and take the front line when there is a danger. This is done in the reference to the movie “Invictus starred by Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon”, which a story about Nelson Mandela’s early days as president of South Africa, and particularly how he viewed the country’s Rugby team, the Springboks and an upcoming World cup that was to be held in South Africa as an opportunity to bring his country together. It also talks about the President’s attempt to reconcile the country’s racial divide and avoid a civil war through uniting all sides in supporting South Africa’s rugby team as they made their drive

His quiet reflective confidence, his commitment to lead from values , the personal connection he makes with everyone he meets, are all evidence of his skill in calmly modeling the way. Mandela’s personal challenge, commitment, and his quiet leadership enabled Pienaar to see the long shot as a possibility thus making him act to leading his team to train harder than before. The inspirational leadership theme builds throughout the rest of the film. Mandela’s words, “visible felt leadership,”

and his history becomes powerful rallying point for higher performance. He further stresses that forgiveness liberates the soul and that it was a powerful weapon they had. He encouraged the blacks to surprise the whites with the compassion.

2.2 Challenging the

Mandela tries to motivate his black colleagues to change their views on the Whites who had done a lot of injustices to them and to forget the past through forgiveness and reconciliation. He showed the need for forgiveness and reconciliation between the two sides for the success of the country. He tells them how forgiveness liberates the souls and that there was a need for acting differently from what the whites were expecting from them. This drove the two sides to join hands in supporting their rugby team in the World cup championship, hence enabling their team to win the