Scar Leadership

The Lion King: A Leadership Analysis While watching Disney’s renowned film, The Lion King, it is hard to miss the connections made between the theories and concepts learned in our leadership class and the plot of the movie. In the Lion King, Simba is the prince of “everything that the light touches”. As he grows older, he must learn the ways of his homeland from his father, the King, Mufasa, and how the next King of the Jungle should act. Unfortunately, his evil Uncle Scar wants to take over the throne and kills Mufasa while claiming that Simba was the murderer, all the while Simba thinking that he actually is too. Simba then spends his days outside of the savannah to avoid his family and the ashamed feeling he has. However, he must face

Not only does he not care for his followers, but he also exhibits another quality that was taught in leadership class- being unethical. Ultimately, you could argue that Scar’s leadership was both ineffective and unethical. Unethical leaders do not take into consideration their followers needs and exhibit leadership only for the sake of themselves. Scar’s followers, the hyenas and some of the lions, never truly felt a connection with him or shared in his beliefs. For instance, when Scar overhunts the lands and drives out all the animals, the lions are left with no more food. When Sarabi, Simba’s mother, tells him that there is nothing left for the animals and that they must leave in order to survive, Scar tells her that they will all die before they leave Pride Rock. He then hits Sarabi for comparing him to Mufasa. Overall, his leadership was unethical and ineffective because he never thought of his followers and their

I drew the connection between the film and this aspect of our class by realizing that Scar is evil, Incompetent, rigid, and intemperate. Being evil means that he uses pain with which he gains power. We saw this right away when he pushed Mufasa to his death off a cliff. Incompetence means that he doesn’t have the capacity of understanding of how to lead. This was evident when the lion pride fell and the kingdom descended into ruins under his leadership. Being rigid meant that he was unable to concede to others opinions because he felt that his way was the best way. Lastly, Scar was intemperate because he lacked self-control and his dedicated followers, the Hyenas, were unable to intervene to take over because they lacked the ability to cooperate and save Pride