Leadership 4400
Remember the Titans Leadership Film Assessment
La’Paul Blackmon
July 18, 2014

Coach Boone states the following during his first team meeting. “This is no democracy. It is a dictatorship. I am the law. If you survive camp, you will be on the team. If you survive.” According to John Potter: How Situational Leadership Works, the leadership style that coach Boone used was directing. The directing leadership style typically involves taking over a challenging situation and applying specific knowledge and experience to right the ship. For example, if your business is struggling to establish its brand, a skilled marketing manager can be brought in to develop a marketing strategy to create brand awareness. A directing-type manager will establish clear goals and objectives for his work area as well as his staff, although staff members have some latitude as to the process used to meet the goals. Which means The directing leadership style typically involves taking over a challenging situation and applying specific knowledge and experience to right the ship. For example, if your business is struggling to establish its brand, a skilled marketing manager can be brought in to develop a marketing strategy to create brand awareness. A directing-type manager will establish clear goals and objectives for his work area as well as his staff, although staff members have some latitude as to the process used to meet the goals.
As a player on Coach Boone’s team I would feel scared and discouraged. I would understand that he is only trying to make us better but at the same time I would over work myself trying to do everything right so that he would never single me out or get angry with me. Leading with a strong hand is successful. In the beginning you have to be willing to lose some followers because some people may think your being too hard on them or that your just