PERSUASIVE DOCUMENT
You are the retiring CEO of a very successful business. You plan to leave your current position within one year. As a result, you have developed a 7-page briefing document that will persuade the Board to hire a new CEO who is a high-performance manager.
Using the assignment is to persuade the Board to hire a high-performance manager.
In other words, you must figure out and explain to the Board why it is so important for the Board to hire someone who possesses the characteristics of a high-performance manager.
Your briefing document should contain recommendations based on the most important characteristics of a transformational or high-performance manager.
Your document must contain specific examples to support your recommendations.
Your briefing document should be well organized, rigorously objective, and faithful to the evidence about high performance and transformational leaders. Your document must be succinct and clearly written.
Be sure to use citations to the readings to support your arguments for each of the characteristics that you feel are important for the CEO as a high-performance manager to possess to lead the company to success.
