Instructions. This exam is weighted at 20% of your final course grade. Please answer both questions. Try to be concise and keep each answer (narrative) to approximately 1 typed, single spaced page or less, 12 point font, 1 inch margins. This is deliberate and forces you to be clear and concise in your writing. It is open book and open note. Where you use other sources, please cite those sources, and give credit where credit is due. When assessing your response I will first and foremost assess, did you answer the question fully and completely given the constraints? Also, a significant portion of your assessment will be based on your ability to leverage the influence tactic of ‘rational persuasion’ in your answers. I will evaluate your work in both absolute terms, and relative quality. A rubric is provided in the syllabus. Answer both questions: 1. Often, books on leadership and business create an ‘easy to follow’ roadmap for leadership success (e.g., the 10 steps to success), and suggest the process is simple if you follow the steps. Yet, maybe leadership isn’t as easy as these books lead us to believe. With this is mind, critique at least one aspect of David Marquet’s approach to leadership as discussed in his book, Turn the Ship Around. Is there one or more aspects in his approach that you find troubling, have doubt, or that you disagree with? Explain. Even if you don’t disagree with anything, play the devil’s advocate in identifying one or more aspects to critique. What change or advice would you offer? Draw on any relevant knowledge from your course readings, experience, personal examples, etc. to reinforce your argument. 2. You be the professor! Develop a theory or model of leadership that incorporates two or more of David Marquet’s leadership ideas, at least one theory from your text “Leadership Theory and Practice” by Northouse, as well as your own experience and ideas. NOTE: if you have a picture/diagram of your model, put on a separate page, that will not count against the page limits. Provide a rationale and justification for your model. What are the strengths of the model? Is it testable & falsifiable (easy to confirm/disconfirm)? Limitations? Your answer should be part of your narrative. If you were to write a book on your model, what would you title it? NOTE: It is insufficient to identify an existing theory/model, without providing some extension to it, enhancement of it, or integration with other theories/models. If you have citations, put those on a separate page (page limit applies to narrative only).
