The film commemorates a real event that happened in 1971 when racial integration process requires two institutes of Alexandria (Virginia), only one white and one black only, to merge, and therefore also their football teams. To further complicate the situation in this small town but very passionate about the sport, the new management decides to lead the team ( Titans) to a black coach Herman Boone (played solvency customary Denzel Washington ), relegating to second place team coach targets (embodied by the veteran and, though little known, Will Patton that gives a good reply to Denzel, achieving an interesting chemistry.)
The story is well told and does, as it should ask any film of this genre, to mobilize the emotions of the viewer, especially sports fans.
There are many readings can be made of "Titans", but I like to focus on how well about the difficulties of integrating two teams of people to make them feel just one, with its own identity, with the same goals and with the same values \u200b\u200b.
speaks very well of the need for leaders l you are at the service of all new equipment , and not only that until the day before were their peers. I had a manager of a financial institution is currently in a merger, when they were setting up the new management team, the leader of other organizations said, "This can not be the steering committee has 8 (of 12) people in your organization. " To which I answer this magnificent professional " mistake, this team consists of the 12 best people in the new project, because my organization ceased to exist during the time when we merged ." A difficult to overcome inertia. Respect and authority to be back to earning a part of the team, without losing that were your people. A complicated process that will not be understood by some, and how the film will have no choice but to leave the project.
The process is not easy, but the method coach Herman Boone is effective: they are taken to make the preseason out of town, sets new standards, applies an intransigent leadership style the lack of respect for the rest of the team, is in many ways, some rational, others unconscious, some very emotional to create links between young players, ways to force the relationship and knowledge of the different players.
Fairness and demand. Empathy and resilience. Strategy and heart. Focus on people, people and more people (And much less in the proceedings, the game system or technology). Probably these could be the ingredients to be a good leader, but they sure are the key pieces in the process of integration.
A near-perfect recipe that can be summarized in "Respect." In the words of the real Herman Boone . "I have always believed respect. I was taught to respect the man, his beliefs, their culture, their space. Whatever your principles, I know I should try to respect everyone. That has always SISDO my golden rule and that of all the teams I coached . "
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