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Providing additional resources on leadership styles, traits, and characteristics. Provide parenthetical citations and references within the past three years to support your response. "Ron Finley, founder and driving force behind L.A. Green Grounds, established a revolutionary approach to combating food deserts in South Central Los Angeles through urban gardening initiatives. His organization's fundamental purpose relates to converting empty plots and parkways into productive food-planning gardens and educating the community on sustainable food principles. Through their "pay-it-forward" model, L.A. Green Grounds mobilizes volunteers from across the city to build community gardens in some neighborhoods that are most in need and directly combat the availability of affordable, nutritious produce. Finley exemplifies a powerful blend of transformational and charismatic leadership attributes, most notably in his leadership of community relations and vision creation. His transformational leadership emerges in his declaration, "Gardening is my graffiti. I grow my art. Just like a graffiti artist, where they beautify walls, me, I beautify lawns, parkways" (TED, 2013, 4:59). Such innovative changes of followers' perceptions and inducing action in urban gardening prove his innovative thinking. Leaders capable of effecting system inversion go further than devising ways to transform the entire system; they