California State University Northridge Trumps Leadership Management Essay

Instruction: Essay Two

Topic: Your Favorite Leader

Please think of your favorite leader (any leader, which may include leaders from the movies, corporate, for profit and non for profit, politics, public life, sports, science, even comic figures, etc. also possible, your boss, your leadership, etc.) and analyze his or her leadership using three different theories out of the theories covered in class. If you are lacking ideas, there are numerous leadership videos posted to our course website (leadership module) that you may use for inspiration. Remember, theories are like different pairs of glasses, when you put them on, some may work to “see clearly” and identify the persons’ leadership, while others may not be a good fit (in that situation, or for that person, but they may work on person or another form of leadership).

Please only the theories covered in class or on the lecture slides. Please use three different leadership theories. Please use those three leadership theories that you feel describe best, what makes your favorite leader a truly great leader. Provide your essay with a headline or cover page and a short description who the leader is. Afterwards, structure your essay based on these sections:

1. Theory 1:
2. Theory 2:
3. Theory 3:

• Try not to exceed a total of three to four pages for your responses (that is, approximately one page per question). Title page/ Cover page and (potentially, references if used) are NOT included in this page count. Importantly, use your own words (and do NOT copy off the internet). If you do “copy” sections, use citations (that may be off the internet) and reference them clearly. Please put any “quotes” in quotation marks (i.e., “…”) and provide the references in brackets and in a clear reference section. However, while quotations and references are generally a good thing (especially, if you provide favorite leadership quotes etc.) they are not a requirement.

Generally: The same rules regarding file formatting as for the first essay (only WORD and PDF files are accepted) timeliness of submission (zero tolerance for late submissions, and that includes no ‘updating’ for incomplete assignments after the due date has passed), document formatting (reasonable font size, no more than three-to-four pages plus introduction/references, use headlines and use paragraphs, zero tolerance of plagiarism). As a reminder: A paragraph is always more than a sentence, but less than a page. If a paragraph was a sentence we would call it sentence, if it was a page we would call it page. Importantly, I will subtract points for one-sentence-paragraphs or page-long paragraphs.