The document provides instructions for an assignment to analyze the leadership styles of five selected historical leaders. Students must choose one leader from List 7 and one from List 4, and select the remaining three leaders from Lists 1-3 or 5-6. For each leader, students are to research their biography, historical events, and answer questions about their leadership characteristics, style, how they gained and used power, and how their leadership may have evolved. The assignment requires compiling a 7-8 page paper citing sources in APA format.

1. Leadership Styles
In this assignment, you will study the characteristics that mark
each leadership style.
Identify five leaders from the lists given in Appendix A.
You must select one leader's name from List 7.
You must select one leader's name from List 4.
Select the remaining three leaders from Lists 1, 2, 3, 5, or 6.
Ensure you select only one name from a list.
Share reasons for your selection of leaders.
Using a scholarly Online Library or the Internet, research about
the following:
· Biographies of the chosen leaders
· Historical events associated with the chosen leaders
Based on your research and readings, compile a 7-to 8-page
Microsoft Word that includes answers to the following
questions:
· What were the characteristics of your chosen leaders?
· What were the factors that contributed to each individual
rising to the role of leader?
· What was each selected leader's leadership style? Support your
position with credible references with respect to the style, and
include an accurate biography and depiction of historical
events.
· Did the leaders' leadership style shifted or evolved with time
or the acquisition of power? Why?
· What tools did the leaders utilized to promote their influence

2. and vision?
· What were each leader's contingency and situational
leadership capabilities? Explain and support with examples
where he or she demonstrated those leadership capabilities.
· What was the power base of the selected leaders? What
characteristics or traits allowed each individual to assume the
position of leadership power?
· What role did the leaders assumed in resolving conflict? What
was each leader's apparent conflict resolution style?
· What was each leader's iconic situation that gained him or her
recognition as a leader?
· Did the environment and time lend to each leader's rise or
recognition? Why?
· Reflecting on leadership theory and style, would you consider
certain traits and characteristics to be timeless? Why or why
not?
· Why did others adopt or invest in them as individuals and
leaders?
See below a template that you can use to complete the
assignment.
Support your responses with examples.
Cite any sources in APA format.
Leadership Styles
Identify five leaders from the lists given in Appendix A.
· Select one leader’s name from List 7.
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· Provide the reason for selecting this leader.
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3. · Select one leader’s name from List 4.
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· Provide the reason for selecting this leader.
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· Select the remaining three leaders from Lists 1, 2, 3, 5, or 6.
Ensure you select only one name from a list.
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· Provide the reason for selecting this leader.
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Appendix A
List 1
List 2
List 3
List 4
1. Alexander Graham Bell
1. Benjamin Franklin
1. Friedrich Nietzsche
1. Howard Hughes
1. Joseph E. Stiglitz
1. Max Theiler
1. Allan C. Greenspan

4. 1. Ross Perot
1. Lao Tzu
1. Lance Armstrong
1. Nikola Tesla
1. Albert Sabis
1. George Washington Carver
1. Admiral Chester Nimitz
1. Alexander Hamilton
1. Douglas MacArthur
1. George S. Patton
1. Patrick Henry
1. William "Bull" Halsey
1. Winston Churchill
1. Ulysses S. Grant
1. Benedict Arnold
1. Bernard Montgomery
1. George Dewey
1. Norman Schwarzkopf

5. 1. Ariel Sharon
1. Benazir Bhutto
1. Golda Meir
1. Henry Kissinger
1. Hillary Clinton
1. Ho Chi Minh
1. Indira Gandhi
1. Mikhail Gorbachev
1. Nelson Mandela
1. Yasser Arafat
1. Yitzhak Rabin
1. Condoleezza Rice
1. Colin Powell
1. Dwight Eisenhower
1. Franklin Roosevelt
1. John F. Kennedy
1. Richard Nixon
1. Ronald Reagan
1. Thomas Jefferson

6. 1. William J. Clinton
1. Zachary Taylor
1. Jimmy Carter
1. George Washington
1. Queen Elizabeth I
1. Margaret Thatcher
List 5
List 6
List 7
1. Andrew Carnegie
1. Bill Gates
1. Henry Ford
1. Howard Hughes
1. John D. Rockefeller
1. Lee Iacocca
1. Ray Kroc
1. Richard Branson
1. Sam Walton
1. Steve Jobs

7. 1. Warren Buffett
1. Walt Dinsey
1. Steve Forbes
1. Donald Trump
1. Immanuel Kant
1. John Locke
1. John Stuart Mill
1. Martin Luther King, Jr.
1. Mother Teresa
1. Nelson Mandela
1. Peter Drucker
1. Pope John Paul II
1. Rosa Parks
1. Albert Camus
1. Karl Marx
1. Jeremy Bentham
1. Billy Graham
1. Donald Berwick
1. Adolf Hitler

8. 1. Attila the Hun
1. Ayatollah Khomeini
1. Emperor Hirohito Japan
1. Genghis Khan
1. Idi Amin Dada
1. Ivan the Terrible (Ivan IV)
1. Jim Jones
1. Joseph Stalin
1. Marshall Applewhite
1. Osama Bin laden
1. Saddam Hussein
1. Pol Pot
1. Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung)
1. Fidel Castro Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier
Based on your research and readings, answers the following
questions:
· What were the characteristics of your chosen leaders?
<Enter your response here.>

9. · What were the factors that contributed to each individual
rising to the role of leader?
<Enter your response here.>
· What was each selected leader’s leadership style? Support
your position with credible references with respect to the style,
and include an accurate biography and depiction of historical
events.
<Enter your response here.>
· Did the leaders’ leadership style shifted or evolved with time
or the acquisition of power? Why?
<Enter your response here.>
· What tools did the leaders utilized to promote their influence
and vision?
<Enter your response here.>
· What were each leader’s contingency and situational
leadership capabilities? Explain and support with examples
where he or she demonstrated those leadership capabilities.

10. <Enter your response here.>
· What was the power base of the selected leaders? What
characteristics or traits allowed each individual to assume the
position of leadership power?
<Enter your response here.>
· What role did the leaders assumed in resolving conflict? What
was each leader’s apparent conflict resolution style?
<Enter your response here.>
· What was each leader’s iconic situation that gained him or her
recognition as a leader?
<Enter your response here.>
· Did the environment and time lend to each leader's rise or
recognition? Why?
<Enter your response here.>
· Reflecting on leadership theory and style, would you consider
certain traits and characteristics to be timeless? Why or why
not?
<Enter your response here.>

11. · Why did others adopt or invest in them as individuals and
leaders?
<Enter your response here.>