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Regardless, write a letter as if you were writing it to one of your selected “Soul Models.” Explain the role they have played in your life and what that has meant to you.

Journal 2

In the journal assignment last week asked you to identify who your “Soul Models” were and to try to pinpoint some of the ways in which they have influenced you.

This week would like for you to think about what you would say to those people.

Maybe some of them are living; maybe some have passed. Maybe some are famous; maybe some live in your town.

Regardless, write a letter as if you were writing it to one of your selected “Soul Models.” Explain the role they have played in your life and what that has meant to you.

Discuss how your personal core competencies help you create value for the business where you work, your life, your school, or your family. What can you do to expand or improve your core competencies?

Hitt, M. A., Ireland, R. D., & Hoskisson, R. E. (2017). Strategic management: Competitiveness and globalization: Concepts and cases (12th ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning. ISBN-13: 9781305502147

These are Discussion Question 2 are done every week, must be at least 150 words and have a citation.

1.In your own words, describe the differences between the industrial organization (I/O) and the resource-based models of above-average returns. As an analyst, how would you determine the significance or validity of these models with respect to a given industry?

2. How do vision and mission statements affect the strategic management process? Select an example of strong vision and mission statements and include them here. Why do you think these are strong statements? How do the statements contribute to a perception of company’s overall competitiveness? Cite any sources used to support your answer.

3. Why does scanning the external environment play such a significant role in strategic analysis? How do unexpected daily events warrant significant analysis, and how would you determine their significance? As a strategic analyst, how would you approach and be prepared for their inevitable occurrence?

4. Describe a historical situation where a failure to assess and correctly interpret the external environment resulted in a business’ failure. What elements of the external environment were missed? How might the company have corrected this oversight? Cite any sources used to support your answer.

5. What is value and how is it determined and measured? In your opinion, does business generally determine and measure value appropriately? In a free market, what happens when value is not properly assessed by a business and its leaders? Give a historical example and your thoughts about how and why a disconnect occurred. Cite any sources used to support your answer.

6. What makes a competitive advantage sustainable, and why is sustainability a critical strategy-making consideration? Is sustainability knowable in the medium and long term? Why or why not? Give an example to support your conclusion. Cite any sources used to support your answer.

7. Describe the relationship between business level strategy and value chain activities. How do disruptive business models alter a value chain? What are the implications for the business and for its competitors?

8. Why do you think competing businesses endeavor to differentiate? How can external factors regulate the nature of competition within an industry?

9. How do firms use horizontal, vertical, and related types of acquisitions to increase their market power? Provide an example of a company that has used multiple types of acquisitions to increase its market power and describe how the firm is now a greater competitor in the market as a result. Cite any sources used to support your answer.

10. Discuss the three types of restructuring strategies and provide real-word examples of instances when each has been used. Cite any sources used to support your answer.

11. Discuss how the three internal governance mechanisms are used to align the interests of managerial agents with those of the firm’s owners. Why is this so critical in today’s business climate where the ethics practiced by firms are constantly being scrutinized?

12. What can strategic leaders do to develop and sustain an effective organizational culture? What actions can a strategic leader take to establish and maintain ethical practices within a firm?

13. How do an organization’s vision, mission, and goals affect its approach to strategic management and measurement? Discuss how top management teams affect a firm’s performance and its ability to innovate, design, bring about effective strategic change.

14. Business metrics or key performance indicators (KPIs) are useful in determining the success of change management efforts by providing a measurable value against which the company can then compare its desired business goal or outcome. Research three business metrics and describe how each is used to measure performance and how a business can use the results from each metric to improve its performance.

15. Discuss how the material you have learned in this course can be applied to creating a strategic plan for your life, personal goals, professional career, etc. What would that plan entail? Would you need to conduct a SWOT analysis or perform an environmental scan? Describe how you can apply strategic management principles to your personal plan.

16. Discuss how your personal core competencies help you create value for the business where you work, your life, your school, or your family. What can you do to expand or improve your core competencies?

Hitt, M. A., Ireland, R. D., & Hoskisson, R. E. (2017). Strategic management: Competitiveness and globalization: Concepts and cases (12th ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning. ISBN-13: 9781305502147

Complete an Internet search to research a current case where a violation of patients’ rights is at the forefront of the case. Post the link to the case, and explain why there is a violation of patients’ rights. 

5 HA 500

Patients have to be the focus of every health care worker.

This is because the patients are not only the customers and provide the income for the medical businesses, but also because the services provided to patients deal with life versus death or quality of life.

To keep the focus on patients, many laws, regulations, and rules—including ethical codes of conduct—have been created to guide caregivers and other medical employees.

For this discussion prompt, complete an Internet search to research a current case where a violation of patients’ rights is at the forefront of the case. Post the link to the case, and explain why there is a violation of patients’ rights.

Be sure to cite from your readings and research and explain in detail the specifics of violation.

Is the concept of Illiberal Democracy important and why? Be sure to discuss the differences between Liberal and Illiberal Democracy, according to Fareed Zakaria’a article, and provide examples.

Essay Question – Is the concept of Illiberal Democracy important and why? Be sure to discuss the differences between Liberal and Illiberal Democracy, according to Fareed Zakaria’a article, and provide examples.

Try to avoid generalizations, such as: “ALL politicians are corrupt”; always, never, etc. Qualify your claims.

Select Castorp’s experiences which you believe may be considered as the most significant milestones on his journey toward greater self-awareness. Be specific and back up your choices.

Options: Discuss the war as Hans Castorp’s only hope for a meaningful survival.

Select Castorp’s experiences which you believe may be considered as the most significant milestones on his journey toward greater self-awareness. Be specific and back up your choices.

Write a brief overview of the key points); and your professional goals (you have already written these out in more depth – so just give a brief synopsis of key points).

Executive Summary

Paper detalis:

An executive summary is basically a brief synopsis or overview of a larger document – in this case, your e-portfolio. This is meant to be short and sweet – a quick overview of the high points of your professional career.

It should be roughly five (5) paragraphs (including an introduction and conclusion).

You will give an overview of your professional accomplishments (most of this information is in your resume as well, but this should be written out in narrative form);

your strengths as a nurse (again, much of this information is already located in your resume – you just need to write a brief overview of the key points); and your professional goals (you have already written these out in more depth – so just give a brief synopsis of key points).

APA format will not be graded, but correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation is always expected. Submit via Canvas.

Research and read about Impression Management (IM) techniques. Select 3 of the 4 Impression Management techniques and provide an example of how you could use them. Which IM technique do you believe is best and why?

Impression management

Research and read about Impression Management (IM) techniques. Select 3 of the 4 Impression Management techniques and provide an example of how you could use them. Which IM technique do you believe is best and why?

Describe the main relationships between location, sediment, land use and vegetation patterns today. What main changes have taken place in land use since 1948?

Biogeography report

Biogeography is the study of the spatial distribution of plants and animals and the reasons behind their occurrences. These questions can concern global to very local scales, over many different time scales.

One way to identify patterns in space and time at local scale is by using historical and contemporary maps.

Using historical maps makes it possible to trace land use changes and areas with a continuity of land use, thus making it possible to identify possible hot spots of biodiversity in a landscape based on ecological principles. Stable areas or areas with small-scale disturbances will have more species than areas with more and larger scale disturbances.

In the present landscape habitats such as semi-natural grasslands and deciduous forests have an exceptional high species richness compared to other areas in the landscape. A reason for this is that they were much larger areas in the past and have accumulated species over time.

During the last 200 years many forests and grasslands have been turned into crop-fields or planted with conifer forests.

Your task is to investigate the pattern between the sediment grain size (finer, coarse, mixed or bedrock) and vegetation and land use.

Do not worry about the specific names of the sediments in the legend, the focus is on how moist or dry the sediment is and whether one can plough the land.

You should identify the main relationships between land use (for example built-up areas, forest plantations, crop fields, semi-natural grasslands and forest), change over time and sediment type.

Explain the drivers of the land uses over time and changes you can identify in the landscape.

Below you will find five maps to help you: from 1868-77, 1948, and today, and a map of surface sediment types.

These are available from the bottom of the page as pdf files, and linked from the instructions as tifs. A pdf file with legends for all maps is also available at the bottom of the page.

Note that the maps do not include exactly the same classes, therefore you should describe the changes you observe in a broad sense.

The area within the red square is your area of interest

By August 13th, you should submit a maximum 1 page report addressing the following questions:

Look at the historical economical map (Valla_1868_77_zoomed).

Compare what’s in the red square with the sediment map and describe the main relationship between the grain size of the sediment (finer, coarse, mixed or bedrock, which affect the water holding capacity) and land use. How has sediment type affected land use in 1868 in the study area?

Open the map Valla_1948. Compare it with the maps from 1868-77. What has changed from 1868-1948? What has not changed much?

Open the map Valla_landuse_today and a contemporary aerial photograph.

Describe the main relationships between location, sediment, land use and vegetation patterns today. What main changes have taken place in land use since 1948?

What land uses are the same?

What places have been stable?

Conclusions: Explain the reasons why some of these changes have taken place and how it has affected biodiversity in different areas (short and simply).