The following question has two parts. Answer Part A first and then Part B.
Part A
According to “The New Psychology of Leadership,” when a group has a shared identity, how can someone use that shared identity to be a more effective leader?
A. by showing how he or she is especially typical of that group
B. by showing how he or she can resist influences of outside groups
C. by showing how he or she is different from other group members
D. by showing how he or she is superior to other members of the group
Part B
Which quotation from the selection best supports the answer to Part A?
A. In the past, leadership scholars considered charisma, intelligence, and other personality traits to be the key to effective leadership.
B. [T]hese academics thought that good leaders use their inborn talents to dominate followers and tell them what to do, with the goal either of injecting them with enthusiasm and willpower that they would otherwise lack or of enforcing compliance.
C. [T]he best leaders are prototypical of the group—they not only seem to belong to it but also exemplify what makes the group distinct from and superior to rival groups.
D. [S]ocial theorist Max Weber introduced the notion of "charismatic leadership" as an antidote to his grim prognosis for industrial society. Without such leadership, he forecast, "not summer's bloom lies ahead of us, but rather a polar night of icy darkness and hardness."