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Answers must be logically organized, comprehensive, and thorough. Ensure that sentences are structured and words are chosen to communicate ideas clearly, and that ideas are sequenced and transitioned logically to make your ideas clear and concise. Ensure that your final document is professionally formatted, i.e. fonts and margins are consistently used, and bullets (if used) are properly structured. In all instances, be specific and provide supporting evidence from the case study, the textbook, the PMBOK®?, and course materials. You may leverage all knowledge gained throughout this program. Your depth of analysis, understanding and thorough application of the program material are the critical items being assessed. Pre-Assessment Leader Research: For the overall exam, as provided in the assessment instructions, you MUST have selected a leader who has had significant biographical and leadership-based content published about them. You MUST provide an available citation (in hyperlink format) in Question 1 so that your professor may read about this leader, should they not be well known. Failure to provide a citation for further information about your selected leader may make you ineligible for marks on any questions which may not be properly investigated through your citation. That said, this assessment is meant to show your application of the theories learned throughout this program. Your citation provided may not necessarily include reference material for each individual question. Here, your application of course material and thought process will be assessed more than citation relevance to each question.

Question 

1. For your selected leadership example, please explain why you chose this leader to discuss. Would you consider your chosen leader a 'good' leader or an 'effective' leader? Why? Also, please provide a reference citation where I may read more about your leader.

2. In examining your chosen leader's relationship with or beliefs about their followers, what stands out to you? Describe in the context of Leader-Member Exchange Theory (LMX).

3. Describe one of the largest leadership challenges your leader has faced in their career? What did they do to overcome this challenge? How can you use this leader's experience to tackle a challenge you feel you may face in Project Management.

4. What do you believe motivates your chosen leader? Connect this leader to a motivational theory we have learned about to explain why they have chosen to lead.

5. Discuss the one base of power that your leader makes use of most. Be sure you are able to provide concrete examples of how this power has been used and to what end result.