‘Remember the Titans’

Leadership in Organizations
12th December of 2013

Miguel Nogueira Rodrigues
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Remember the Titans is a film that tells the story about a period of history in the United States, when the differences between black and white people were much assumed. The black people wanted to feel respected and not discriminated by the whites, and because of that they wanted the same rights as the others.
In this story, for the first time, all people could attend the same high school, and this change created many problems between students and their families.
The Titans were a football team, but they were always losing the games, and win the championship was unreachable for them. So, the school board decide to get a new team coach, with the capabilities to turn the results around, and make them a team of winners. The problem was that when they discover that the new coach, Herman Boone, was black. From that day, he had to win the respect of the players that were both black and white, and get a new environment, to make them a united team, capable of overcome the differences and difficulties between the players. And to achieve that Coach Boone ask the previous coach, Coach Yoast, to help him doing that.
In this film, is very well presented the example of a leader, and how the cultural differences shape the beliefs, attitudes, opinions, preferences and behaviours of those who lead and of the ones that made the choice to follow the coach. In this case despite of the difference race of the coach, almost all the players accepted him as the leader.
We also could see that is not enough to have a leadership style in the way we talk or propose things to others, but the important thing is to get the respect of the followers and make them believe in the leader’s capacities.

1. What type of leadership traits (e.g., neuroticism, extraversion, openness