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• Select a book on Strategic Management topics (or related topics) or a book on the history of a company. See the booklist posted on Blackboard for appropriate titles. Please get approval from me if the book you wish to read is not on the list.
• (a) Summarize the book in your own words (minimum 5 pages).
• (b)To analyze a strategic planning book the discussion might include: how a company or your firm might (or already does) implement the ideas presented in the book, the effects of the ideas on businesses, employees, customers, etc. (minimum 2 pages). To analyze a company book the discussion might include: how the company’s competitive advantages have changed over time, how you think its history has affected its current position; its strengths/weaknesses; how CEO’s have influenced the values, philosophy, corporate culture of the company; leadership characteristics of the founder/CEO; lessons learned from reading the book; implications of topics discussed; how the ideas could be implemented at your company, etc. (minimum 2 pages).
• (c) Include a discussion about how course information applies to the book content; how the book ideas support text concepts or how book ideas disagree or vary from text concepts; or compare/contrast book concepts and information with class text concepts. Be sure to identify specific course topics/concepts (minimum 3 pages).

Writing assignment instructions

• Students are required to select from the following list of options a combination of assignments that they wish to complete. Each assignment can only be done once with the exception of journal articles. Text and class cases cannot be used to complete an assignment. The purpose is to allow students the ability to select assignments that most interest them.  Students must complete a combination of assignments so that the total maximum possible is 100 points.  NOTE: Any assignments that are e-mailed to me will be acknowledged when I have received them.
• Why? To apply course concepts, to engage in critical thinking, and to better understand strategic planning.
• Paper Format: 1″ margins, 10 or 12 font, Headings for each section of the paper, single or double spacing, excellent writing skills. Please APA or MLA Bibliography format/style. Internet references must include the author, title, date, and web address – Wikipedia is an inappropriate source.  Minimum page suggestions are based on double spacing.  Written assignments are a reflection of an individual so the presentation of a written paper is very important.  Use of excellent writing skills is expected.  Cite sources of facts in the body of the paper via footnotes or author’s name in parentheses.  It is expected that all written assignments are original work prepared by students in the class.  Extensive ‘cutting and pasting’, even if properly cited will result in a failing grade.

                                       BOOK LIST

Strategic Management Books:

Leaders Eat Last, by Simon Sinek

Bold, by Peter H. Diamandis& Steven Kotler

Great by Choice by Jim Collins& Morten Hansen

The End of Competitive Advantage: How to keep your strategy moving as fast as your business, Rita Gunther McGrath

Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works, A.G., Lafley& Roger Martin

The Best Practices Enterprise: A Guide to achieving Sustainable World-Class Performance, by      James Kerr

Being Strategic, by Erika Anderson

The Contrarian’s Guide to Leadership

Why good companies go bad and how great managers remake them

Winning Behavior – What the smartest most successful companies do differently

The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization

Blue Ocean Strategy, by Chan Kim & Renee Mauborgne

Company Books:

Shoe Dog: A memoir by the Creator of Nike, by Phil Knight

Elon Musk:  Tesla, SpaceX and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, by Ashlee Vance

Tails from the Bark Side, by Heidi Ganahl

Netflixed: The Epic Battle for America’s Eyeballs, by Gina Keating

Brick by Brick (Lego), by D. Robertson & B. Breen

One-Click:  Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com, by Richard Brandt

The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company that is Connecting the World, by D. Kirkpatrick

Hallmark: A Century of Caring

The Steve Jobs Way: iLeadership for a New Generation, by Jay Elliot

Start Something That Matters (TOMS shoes), by Blake Mycoskie

Display of Power: How FUBU Changed A World of Fashion, by Daymond John

I’m Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee No. 59, by Douglas Edwards

Ask Papa Jack: Wisdom of the World’s Oldest CEO, by Steven Weil

Everything I know about business I learned at McDonald’s

The HP Way:  How Bill Hewlett & I built our Company

Onward: How Starbucks Fought for its Life without Losing Its Soul, by Howard Schultz

Starbucked: A Double Tall Tale of Caffeine, Commerce and Culture

Patagonia: Let my people go surfing

Blue Streak: Inside JetBlue, the upstart that rocked an industry

On Target: How the World’s Hottest retailer hit a bulls-eye

What I learned from Sam Walton: How to Compete and Thrive in a Wal-Mart World

Creating Magic: 10 Common Sense Leadership Strategies from Life at Disney

Winning (GE), by Jack Welch

The Nordstrom Way: The Inside Story of America’s #1 Customer Service Company

Inside Out: Microsoft – In Our Own Words

The Emperor of Chocolate: Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars

Secret Recipe Why KFC is still cooking after 50 years (KFC)

Direct from Dell: Strategies that Revolutionized an Industry

The Real Thing – Truth and Power of the Coca-Cola Company

Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration, Ed Catmull

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Compare, contrast and analyze the healthcare system of the US and Japan.
The paper needs to address issues such as cost, access for all individuals, life expectancy and general health status of individuals living in both countries. Include strengths and weakness of both systems. Finally, summarize your findings with suggestions for improving both healthcare system based on your research.

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Standard thesis instruction
Chapter 1: Purpose and Significance of the Study
Chapter 2: Review of the Literature
Chapter 3: Methodology
Chapter 4: Findings
Chapter 5: Discussion
Finishing

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According to Rosewood Hotel to write this case study(Special one would be better). You can search the information about Rosewood Hotel (Special one)online including it’s official website, other article about this hotel. Other instruction please according to files dropped.

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This has to be a 3 page paper that answers the following two questions:
1.  In the cases of Drs. Bennet and Smith, identify the source(s) of law with which each is involved.  (Refer to Chapter 2 of your textbook to understand the three sources of law. For this question, please remember the following:
• “Common law” is law stemming from a prior judicial decision. Does the court in either reference common law (or not)? Is either case common law itself?
•  “Administrative law” is the law involving agency or board rules/regulations. Are there any agency or board rules/regulations involved in either or both cases in this question (or not)?
• “Constitutional law” is the law of the US Constitution, such as the First Amendment, Second Amendment, etc. This law involves only the specific provisions of the US Constitution itself. How might the US Constitution be involved (or not) in one or both cases in this question?
•  “Statutory law” is law made by the legislative branch. Is a legislative statute invoked (or not) in one or both of the cases presented here?
Explain your answers.
2.  How do you think each of the physicians handled their respective situations?  Should they be professionally disciplined?  Is this a legal or ethical issue?  Why?
I have attached all necessary documents.

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You are the head of Human Resources and you are responsible for communicating any and all changes that impact employees at your company.  This week, you will be sending a communication e-mail that will contain some bad news that will likely upset many employees.

Your company has made the decision to close down one of its regional locations (Manchester, IA) and combine it with another facility (Bellevue, IA) to save costs and increase efficiencies.  This likely will mean a reduction in headcount (personnel) as well so you have to be very sensitive in how this is communicated.  People will obviously be worried about what this may mean for them? is this just the beginning of more moves like this?, what does this mean for the company’s future?, etc.

Assignment:

Write an e-mail to the entire company, announcing the immediate closure of the Regional location in Manchester, IA, writing an indirect bad news message would be the most appropriate communication channel.

As your leader, I would like to see this e-mail before you send it out to ensure that it contains the correct tone, content, and style. Upload the e-mail to the appropriate Dropbox so I can review it and make any necessary corrections.

Rubric:

Below are the criteria I will be using to assess your submission:

• Informative subject line
• Appropriate greeting that maintains professionalism and possesses the appropriate formality level
• Demonstrates evidence of the writing process and clearly conveys regret without ambiguity or too much apology; also does not create false hope, make false promises, or masks the import of the bad news
• Request is framed appropriately and follows the standard format for routine bad news messages of this sort: opens with a buffer statement, provides a rationale, delivers bad news, focuses on the future/provides a positive angle, and closes respectfully to maintain goodwill with the reader
• Ends with a sincere goodwill message and uses an appropriate “sign off” – also possesses a signature block with contact information
• A positive tone that reflects the “you attitude,” reflects a high standard of professional etiquette, and demonstrates concern for others
• Concise phrasing and clear, precise word choices
• Free of grammar and usage errors; no errors

The total number of points available for this assignment is 20 points

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Please collect data to identify industries with high multipliers in your interested region. Your assignment submission need include the following information:

1. What indicators are you using to calculate location quotients and multipliers? These indicators can be employment, GDP, or income, etc.

2. Justify your indicator selection by explaining the economic goals of your development strategies.

3. Original data of indicators

4. Calculation expressions of location quotients and multipliers

5. Description of data:
(1) Metropolitan area name
(2) Industries’ names
(3) NAICS code, if you are using Census data
(4) Year
(5) Data source

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Categorize the following risks by source.

Event 1: Nineteenth Century Realty is the largest real estate agency in the greater metropolitan area.  Each year, the top sales people and the company’s top leadership meet for a “President’s Council” retreat/celebration at a tropical location.  During this year’s “President’s Council” celebration, an earthquake and resultant tsunami leveled the resort, resulting in mass casualties.  Nineteenth Century Realty lost all of its top sales people and leadership except the CFO and the new “tiny house” Realtor who were off-site touring a potential production facility in the island nation.  Sales volumes in the next year will be dramatically reduced, and the company will incur significant expenses to try and rebuild.

Event 2: ZippySauce is the maker of several sauces used by the famous restaurant chain MacGregor’s.  For the past 20 years, ZippySauce has not widely distributed its products to other restaurants or other outlets other than a few local grocery stores to who ZippySauce supplies one small product line; MacGregor’s also used ZippySauce as its sole provider for its sauces and dressings.  Unexpectedly, MacGregor’s just informed ZippySauce that at the end of the current contract term, they will discontinue purchasing anything from ZippySauce and will be making their own sauces in the MacGregor’s kitchens due to shifting consumer preference for “local” ingredients. ZippySauce immediately fired its relationship manager who supported the MacGregor’s contract.

Event 3: FunFinance about to go under. For 65 years, it has steadily grown based on a business of lending exclusively to the businesses run by members of the 5 most powerful families in the area. Last month, it was revealed that one of the families had been defrauded of all their wealth and is now bankrupt, with no remaining collateral. The outstanding loans from that one family represents more than all the bank capital.(The risk to be categorized is from FunFinance perspective.)

Event 4: GreatAnalytics is a direct marketing service used by large banks who are looking to market additional products and services to their customers.  GreatAnalytics had been known to be a very secure and discrete partner for banks who have trusted them with a great deal of their customers’ data to use in generating these marketing programs.  Unfortunately due to a disgruntled employee at GreatAnalytics, this customer data was breached and sold off on the ‘dark web’.  GreatAnalytics quickly discovered the breach, firing the offending employee, but it did not contact its bank customers or the impacted consumers.  Eventually the data breach was discovered by reporters, and several banks were caught up in the bad publicity.   The vast majority of these banks have cancelled their contracts with GreatAnalytics.

Event 5: Two weeks ago, RonCo Energy, a highly-secretive alternative energy company revealed that it must restate its last two years worth of financial statements. The restated financials will have significantly reduced profits. Shareholder litigation plans were announced this morning. Regulators are investigating. Competitors are moving to attack RonCo’s partnering relationships. The Wall Street Journal has already had three front page articles revealing ever-increasingly embarrassing details of the fiasco, including sources at the SEC that report they have uncovered massive fraud by the CFO and CEO of RonCo.

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4 Ways to Attract Your Target Audience’s Attention through “Social Order Deviancy”
Another method for grabbing your target audience’s attention and engaging them is to
provide some sort of “social order deviancy.” Some ways to accomplish this is through
the portrayal of:
1. Society Irreverence
2. Forbidden Behaviors
3. Offensive Behaviors
4. Unleashed Mania
DISCUSSION ASSIGNMENT:
Go to http://bit.ly/1eWpWTT and review the videos on social order deviancy found
posted on YouTube.
Then identify a YouTube link for a commercial with scenes of social order deviancy that
add to the list. I would ask that you submit your own link and vote on your top two with
BRIEF comments on why the promotion attracted attention through “social order
deviancy.” USE ONE OF THE CONCEPTS DESCRIBED ABOVE in order to receive
discussion credit.
DISCUSSION ASSIGNMENT RULES:
You cannot use any examples used my blog videos.

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