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The Importance Of Leadership In The Film Hoosiers

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According to James Clawson Level Three of Leadership 5th edition, there are 6 steps to effective leadership. Those steps are Clarifying your center, Clarifying what’s possible, Clarifying what others can contribute, supporting others so they can contribute, being relentless, and measuring and celebrating the progress. In the 1986 film Hoosiers there is a coach by the name of Norman Dale. Norman Dale was a college coach who was hired by the principal Cletus Summers to take the place of the basketball coach that had passed away. Norman Dale and Cletus Summers meet many years ago at a teacher college, Summer tracked Dale down and offer him the coaching position. Throughout the movie Dale demonstrate these six characteristic of leadership once he was hired to coach the Hickory High school basketball team.
When Dale accepted the position as coach and history and civics teacher thought he would be welcome with open arms. When he got to the high school he stop a teacher to ask her where the principal office was, she told him that the office was up the stairs and she thought they were hiring a younger person to be the head coach. As she proceed to question him he interrupts her question by stating this felt like an interview and he thought he already had the job. The teacher did not like his response and walked off. Dale showed the teacher and the townsmen that he was not a person that was going to take orders from them when it came to the basketball team. The townsmen corner Dale

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