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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. 

Questions

1. For your selected leadership example, Explain why you chose this leader to discuss. Would you consider your chosen leader a 'good' leader or an 'effective' leader? Why?

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.