Invictus, The movie<\/p>\n
I have seen the movie Invictus before but did not realise it was such a treasure trove of leadership lessons. Here are a few incidents that shine throughout the movie. I mention them in order of their appearance in the movie-<\/p>\n
1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 On his first day in office, President Mandela meets with his office staff and gives a speech to allay their fears and attempts to unite them. By doing this he demonstrates the strategy of creating trust (Bennis and Nanus, 1985), as mentioned in Northouse , 2016.<\/p>\n
2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In his selection of his bodyguards he attempts to create common ground for the team to be united. By doing this he creates a team spirit. One can sense the lessening of animosity among the bodyguards as the movie progresses.<\/p>\n
3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 President Mandela sees the bigger picture, \u2018conceptualization\u2019 (Spears, 2002; as in Northouse, 2016, p.228) Spears mentions conceptualization in the context of servant leadership, but I believe it applies to all leadership models. A leader is one who has a vision, and sees the bigger picture. Nelson Mandela stands up against his own political party when he sees that their move to abolish the Springboks team\u2019s colors and emblem would create more racial differences.<\/p>\n
4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He sees the opportunity to unite his country around the rugby World cup. He sends the white players into predominantly black neighborhoods to hold rugby \u2018clinics\u2019. In this situation he is a \u2018social architect\u2019 as per Bennis and Nanus (1985). He mobilizes the polarized black and white population to find common ground in the sport.<\/p>\n
5.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He inspires the rugby team captain by inviting him for tea and motivating him to better himself. This translates further by the captain challenging his team to excel themselves. Here he demonstrates the practice of \u2018inspire shared vision\u2019 as per Kouzes and Posner (1987, 2002).<\/p>\n
6.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mr Mandela memorises the names of his team mates before he is due to meet them for the start of the tournament. With this he demonstrates his desire to engage and involve his followers.<\/p>\n
7.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The team captain demonstrates discipline and focus. Before his big game, when is girlfriend comes to meet him, he holds her off. He does it so he can focus game.<\/p>\n
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In this move, the depiction of Nelson Mandela\u2019s character is the epitome of a transformational leader. He possesses the characteristic charismatic behaviors as mentioned by Northouse (2016, p.164), based on House\u2019s charismatic theory ( 1976) \u2013 he is a strong role model, appears competent to his followers, articulates ideological goals, has high expectations of followers arouses task relevant motives in his followers.<\/p>\n
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References<\/p>\n
Bennis, W.G., Nanus, B. (1985). Leaders: The strategies for taking charge. New York: Harper & row.<\/p>\n
Kouzes, J.M., & Posner, B.Z. (2002). <\/span>The leadership challenge ( 3rd ed.(. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.<\/p>\n Northouse, P. G. (2016). Leadership: Theory and Practice. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.<\/p>\n Spears, L.C., (2002). Tracing the past, present and future of servant-leadership. In L.C. Spears & M.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lawrence ( Eds), Focus on leadership: Servant-leadership for the 21st century ( pp. 1-16). New York: Wiley.<\/p>\n Eastwood, C. (Director) & Eastwood, C., McCreary, L., Lorenz, R., Neufeld.M Producers) (2009). Invictus. United States: Liberty Pictures.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Invictus, The movie I have seen the movie Invictus before but did not realise it was such a treasure trove of leadership lessons. Here are a few incidents that shine throughout the movie. I mention them in order of their appearance in the movie- 1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 On his first day in office, President Mandela meets with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ldrs500","category-unit-5","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s9i0gL-invictus","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/icandothis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/icandothis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/icandothis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/icandothis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/icandothis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/icandothis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/icandothis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/icandothis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/icandothis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/icandothis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}