Political Science

Based on your readings and posted questions, thoughtfully assess your potential as an effective leaderIn your paper, consider the following:What have you learned about yourself and your leadership potential?What are your identified strengths and weaknesses? How might you build on those strengths and improve on those weaknesses?In what types of leadership situations are you most likely to be successful? Why?In what ways do you intend to apply the leadership lessons learned in this class?Redefine leadership—is it different than at the start of the class?Did you like the required texts—should they be used for this class in the future?Sources to use:1.Title Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’tAuthor Jim Collins2. Title HBR’s 10 Must Reads on LeadershipAuthor Harvard Business Review3.Title The Leader’s Companion: Insights on Leadership Through the AgesAuthor J. Thomas Wren4. Title The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations, 5th EditionAuthor James M. Kouzes, Barry Posner5. Gordon Bethune at Continental Airlines, by Nohria, Mayo, & BensonBP and the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, by Michael RobertoHow Bell Hit Bottom: Los Angeles Times: 12/20/2010