Write the paper using APA style and format with 3-5 citations per paragraph.

Use 5-7 different sources, including your textbook, include each one in the reference section.

oYou will need to use the models defined in this week’s textbook readings to write your paper.

oIn addition to the textbook, including several peer reviewed references.

All sources must have authors, publication dates, and publishers.

“Anonymous” authors, undated sources will not be accepted as valid sources and marks will be deducted.

The paper should be 2500 to 2800 words (10 pages), should follow a formal business report format including an introduction, summary of the 3 models you chose and why, the main body will look at the three models you chose, define them, explain them, discuss how they are relevant or not to your example. You will end by recommending a model that is the best fit for your example, with the reasons why, Finish by providing a conclusion (action plan) that you can implement at work, to solve your organizational issue. Write as if you are a leader who will actually take these steps in your company, in order for it to succeed. Clearly tell the reader the steps to solve the problem.

Therefore, you must write as if you are a manager, your recommendations must be clear for your boss and your followers to act on.

You are the one doing the research, if your boss/followers cannot understand the model based on what you have written, you will fail this paper! Pretend you are writing this paper as a manual to help your followers and the boss to understand what each model means, its pros and cons, why it is useful for your example (recommendations – why you recommend this model over the others), and how to implement it (conclusion/action plan)

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Corporate leadership has been the subject of numerous research and discourse among professionals. In an organizational setup, the term leadership denotes the individual’s capacity to lead people towards achieving a given goal by sharing a vision and getting the followers to embrace that idea (Hughes et al., 2015). However, leadership is not all about inspiration and good times. It is, therefore, imperative to appreciate that leadership entails making choices even in the face of immensely difficult…