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This Week Discussion 1asks Students To Conduct A Search To Find A He This week, Discussion 1: asks students to conduct a search to find a healthcare leader. Based upon the reading from Chapter 5, students identify a leadership theory that best describes this individual’s leadership style. The evolution of leadership theory has an over 100-year history. In the early days, there was the “Great Man Theory” (Frates, 2014). In the twentieth century, a wide variety of theories have been conjectured. Early study focused on traits, or personal characteristics of leaders. Researchers on trait leadership concluded that there are some underlying set of commonalities among great leaders. Later research shifted to explore actual leader behaviors in which researchers attempted to identify behaviors that differentiated effective leaders from non-effective leaders. The Michigan Leadership Studies, the Ohio State Leadership Studies, and the Managerial Grid are examples of behavioral approaches to leadership (Frates, 2014; Johnson, 2009; Robbins & Judge, 2015). Fiedler’s Contingency Model, House’s Path-Goal Model, Vroom-Jago Leadership Model, Hersey-Blanchard’s Situational Leadership, and Burns’s Transactional/Transformational Leadership have contributed to the construct of leadership in a substantive way. Built upon Burns’s work, Bass (as cited in Robbins & Judge, 2015) devised a theoretical framework to studying two aspects of leadership – transformational leadership and transactional leadership – and further differentiated between these two types of leadership. Although there is great controversy regarding the definition of leadership and approaches to studying the concept and theories of various leadership models, it is apparent that none of these theories has yet provided a completely satisfactory explanation. While not a single leadership paradigm has comprehensively treated the entire domain of leadership phenomenon, each has made unique contributions to the understanding of this complex construct of leadership. All theories combined provide a great deal of insights and principles from a wide spectrum of perspectives. The knowledge of leadership gained from these theories described in the required textbook by Frates (2014) is overly pragmatic, which can be applied to real-world situations for improving productivity, employee morale, employee retention, and profits. A leader is capable of creating positive change for others, the community, and society. Transforming an organization is challenging and requires collective resources, with leadership playing a major role in successful organizational transformation. Opportunity creates leadership, and leadership creates opportunity. The effectiveness of a transformation depends