• Consider the key leaders who have influenced you in your career and/or life. You may have worked with them directly or not at all (i.e. they may be famous business, military, political, religious, etc., leaders -- as long as you know enough about his/her leadership style to answer the below questions). Now select just ONE to focus on for this assignment.

**Use the readings from this week to ensure you are selecting aLEADERvs. a MANAGER.**

• For your selected leader, identify which of the leadership theories covered in this week's lectures is the 'best fit' for this leader. In other words, consider his/her leadership approach and determine whether it best represents the Trait approach, the Behavioral/Skill approaches, the Contingency/Situational approaches, or the Transformational approach.

1. Identify the leader and his/her primary approach, then explain what brings you to this conclusion (provide your rationale... be sure to tie your rationale to the readings and lectures to explain why they are a leader vs. manager, and to justify the theory you selected).
2. Next, identify what you believe are his/her key strengthsandchallenges, and briefly how you see these factors (positive and negative) impacting his/her leadership effectiveness(i.e. their ability to provide vision/direction and influence others to commit to and achieve specific goals - a.k.a. Kotter's definition of leadership).

Part 2

1. Finally, based on the lectures and readings for Modules 1, which theory or theories most resonate withyouand why(i.e. align best with how you think about leadership)? Which donotresonate with you and why?