What Makes the Best Leaders?

For this assignment, complete and submit a paper on What Makes the Best Leaders? Your paper will include the following:

1. Title Page
2. Introduction (Your heading will be the title of your paper).
3. Management Versus Leadership (Heading): these are two distinct functions that share many similar duties, like working with people and influencing others to achieve goals.

• What are the similarities and differences between leadership and management?
• Leading vs. managing: Which would you prefer to do and why?

1. Characteristics of an Effective Leader (Heading).

• Explain what you perceive to be the three most important characteristics of an effective leader.
• Discuss in detail each characteristic and explain why you perceive them as important.

1. Transactional and Transformational Leadership (Heading):

• Define and compare/contrast Transactional and Transformational leadership.
• What type of leadership characteristics might each leadership style have?
• Incorporate a famous person who exhibited a transactional leadership style and a famous leader who exhibited a transformational leadership style - describe each leader's characteristics.

1. Personal Qualities and Skills (Heading):

• Identify 3-5 personal qualities or skills you have that would make you a good leader. Provide a few examples.

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