: In this paper, you will evaluate your leadership performance on the team project, report on your progress in developing your chosen leadership skill and reflect on what you have learned in the class this semester through defining your personal leadership philosophy.
Write a (graduate level) reflection essay on the ideas presented by Zakaria. In your essay consider incorporating all of the following (make sure to read/reread the book and passages to avoid taking the author’s thoughts and statements out of context):
Assess Zakaria’s six guidelines, especially in light of the current global situation.
Provide your thoughts on “Global power is, above all, dominance over ideas, agendas, and models.”
Provide your thoughts on “… it [the U.S.] forgot to globalize itself.”
Your thoughts/answer to “… Will the future be modern or Western? …”
Provide your thoughts on “… China is an inspiration for all of us…”
Present your thoughts on Zakaria’s view about the U.S. best industry. Agree/Disagree. Would it be relevant in 10 years? Why? Why not?
What does the future hold for the modern global world (the year 2022 and forward)? Why? Elaborate.
What is the U.S. purpose in this new decade? Why? Elaborate?
Add any additional thoughts, remarks, and ideas.
The questions above are presented in no particular order. You are welcome to combine them, present them separately, and change the order.
The format:
The plagiarism check is embedded in the assignment. The final plagiarism score should be below 10%.
Follow the APA style – this is a requirement
Title page – APA style
Reference page – follow the APA style to cite your references; don’t forget to include the book itself
Length of a paper – 5-7 pages (excluding Title and Reference pages), double-spaced
Page number – upper right corner of a page
Font – Times New Romans, 12
Use additional sources – (at least 5-7 total VALID sources).
Chapter 9-10 Critical Thinking Questions
Read the following case study and answer the questions that follow.
Respond to at least two of your peers with meaningful content.
Innovation and E-mail Rules
This chapter provides insights into how manufacturing and service organizations can implement processes and controls to increase efficiency, manage expenditures, and increase profits for the organization. For companies such as General Motors that need to manage suppliers and make sure that all components are procured on time and at the best costs to ensure the final assembly runs efficiently, and for service organizations such as Marriott, which wants to have clean rooms and an efficient check-in process when guests arrive, the main lessons of this chapter are readily apparent.
All companies, however, need to innovate continuously to improve their products and services. Automobile companies such as General Motors have to constantly measure customer tastes and needs and provide products that meet and exceed their expectations. Likewise, Marriott needs to cater to the needs of business and leisure travelers in a variety of locations.
Perhaps no company in recent years has captured the attention of the public more than Tesla and SpaceX, both headed by CEO Elon Musk. Tesla is named after the inventor Nicola Tesla, a contemporary of Thomas Edison, who designed the first electric engine. SpaceX is a company that is known for innovation such as reusing rocket launchers to reduce costs. While Tesla and SpaceX still manage their operations with all the processes covered in this chapter, their constant innovation requires new processes.
Perhaps no aspect of modern business has had a bigger impact than the proliferation of e-mail. No longer confined to the desktop, e-mail messages are delivered via mobile devices, and managers must find ways to manage the proliferation of communication to keep on top of things.
Elon Musk communicated the processes and rules for communicating at Tesla in this e-mail to all employees. Subject: Communication Within Tesla
There are two schools of thought about how information should flow within companies. By far the most common way is the chain of command, which means that you always flow communication through your manager. The problem with this approach is that, while it serves to enhance the power of the manager, it fails to serve the company.
Instead of a problem getting solved quickly, where a person in one dept talks to a person in another dept and makes the right thing happen, people are forced to talk to their manager who talks to the manager in the other dept who talks to someone on his team. Then the info has to flow back the other way again. This is incredibly dumb. Any manager who allows this to happen, let alone encourages it, will soon find themselves working at another company. No kidding.
Anyone at Tesla can and should email/talk to anyone else according to what they think is the fastest way to solve a problem for the benefit of the whole company. You can talk to your manager’s manager without his permission, you can talk directly to a VP in another dept, you can talk to me, you can talk to anyone without anyone else’s permission.
Moreover, you should consider yourself obligated to do so until the right thing happens. The point here is not random chitchat, but rather ensuring that we execute ultra-fast and well. We obviously cannot compete with the big car companies in size, so we must do so with intelligence and agility.
One final point is that managers should work hard to ensure that they are not creating silos within the company that creates us vs. them mentality or impede communication in any way. This is, unfortunately, a natural tendency and needs to be actively fought. How can it possibly help Tesla for depts to erect barriers between themselves or see their success as relative within the company instead of collective? We are all in the same boat. Always view yourself as working for the good of the company and never your dept.
Thanks, Elon
Critical Thinking Questions
Why would an e-mail rule memo like this work better as an innovation-driven company such as Tesla rather than at a manufacturing-driven company such as General Motors?
What are the potential problems that could arise out of this approach to e-mail?
You are asked to prepare an essay-style paper on a major project of your choice. The type of your project may come from a variety of industries, e.g. construction, manufacturing, services, etc. The paper should contain the following components:
Cover page
Introduction
Project client (owner) and project management organization
Reason for the project and anticipated objectives/outcomes
Project definition
Project scope
Project site location
Project organization
Project resources needed (people, materials, equipment, etc.)
Project duration and cost estimation
Project activities with precedence relationships, activity durations and resources assigned to each activity
Resource and cost schedule for the project
Project risk identification and risk management plan
Project communication plan (for internal and external stakeholders)
Closing the project (all required deliverables/submittals)
Project success assessment plan (how will you know if the project will have been successful when completed?)
answer the following questions. Use a minimum of 300 words to cover all questions.
1. Outline the complexities that supply chains are dealing with.
2. Discuss the concept of the Bullwhip Effect. Provide examples.
3. How can business reduce the impact of the Bullwhip Effect? Incorporate examples in your responses.
Important note: You should complete these questions even if you are unable to do the simulation. In that case, base your answers only on your reading and research.
OVERVIEW
For this assignment, you will write a 2–3-page paper (double-spaced, 1-inch margins) providing
at least 1 example of how government has overstepped biblical principles in some form of
economic policy. Be sure to adhere to the format specified in the Course Style Guidelines
document.
Options include the following topics:
A specific piece of legislation relating to business regulation or taxation.
The “party platform” of either the Republican Party or the Democratic Party (or both).
The role of the Federal Reserve.
The budget process.
In discussing one of these topics, incorporate clear references from the Learn material in the
assigned Module: Week.
INSTRUCTIONS
Follow the below instructions to compose your assignment:
Length of assignment – 2-3 pages.
Make sure to include a bibliography page
Format of assignment – Course Style Guidelines
At least 2 sources
Acceptable sources – Scholarly articles published within the last five years, the Bible,
online articles given as assignments, and any other pertinent source that helps the student
answer the assignment prompt.
Organization Development is a planned change discipline concerned with applying behavioral science knowledge and practice to help organizations achieve greater effectiveness. In this course, you will conduct an analysis of your organization with the goal of creating a plan to improve an aspect of your organization’s performance. Each unit will build on the previous complete to achieve the goal.
In Unit 1, you conducted an analysis of your organization.
For your Unit 2 Complete assignment, perform an analysis of your organization, department of your responsibilities. Write a narrative essay (minimum 1500 words) in which you address and discuss the questions and statements listed below. Use at least three scholarly sources and remember to demonstrate a thorough understanding of the READ and Attend sections in your essay. Cite your sources in APA format.
• Identify your organization’s mission and vision statement.
• List at least three major goals identified by the leadership in your organization.
• Select one of the major goals (that is important to your department) and identify three objectives stated to attain the goal.
• List the steps you need to take to complete one of your job responsibilities/duties (processes).
• Recommend changes to the outlined process that would make one of your job responsibilities/duties more efficient.
The Unit 2 Assignment extends your work in Unit 1 regarding the competitive and macroenvironmental factors that impact a business. You will prepare a SWOT analysis using the company you analyzed in the Unit 1 Assignment for this assignment. As a reminder, your company’s strengths and weaknesses are internal, issues you have control over and can modify. Opportunities and threats are external; matters going on outside your company, in the larger global market.
See Unit 2 Assignment template.
Reference the course textbook and a minimum of one article from the Purdue University Global Library.
For an example of a SWOT analysis, see “Skechers USA, Inc. SWOT Analysis.”
Keyword search terms you might find useful include “SWOT,” “competitive analysis,” or “strategy” plus company name.
Utilize the Unit 2 template.
Identify chosen company and describe at least three of the following:
mission statement
financial information
product information
customer base
Identify and explain three strengths (internal) for the chosen company.
Identify and explain three weaknesses (internal) for the chosen company.
Identify and explain three opportunities (external) for the chosen company.
Identify and explain three threats (external) for the chosen company.
The paper is required to include an introduction, conclusion, and reference list.
The paper is required to include an introduction, conclusion and be at least two double-spaced pages in length, using 11-point Georgia font. For assistance writing a paper or formatting a reference list in APA format, please see the Academic Writer link under Academic Tools.
Utilize your course textbook and at least one source from Purdue University Global Library.
Transportation Routing Guides
Instructions
Go to the websites by using the provided links. Become familiar with the sites by researching the content and services. Once you have researched the websites, respond to the following questions. Include a detailed response for each of the questions. Do not define terminology or definitions. Share your personal thoughts and ideas. Number your responses according to the assigned questions. Do not retype the questions. You can use your textbook to provide supporting information when answering the questions for this assignment. Post your assignment to the provided thread.
Post your initial response and you will be given access to the Turnitin summary report. You are able to resubmit your document up to three times before the due date.
Word Count Requirement: 300 words
Links
http://www.routingguides.com/ (Links to an external site.)
http://www.transportgistics.com/about-transportgistics.php (Links to an external site.)
Questions
Discuss the value of utilizing standard routing guides.
How can standard routing guides improve quality?
Describe the services provided by TransportGistics.
Identify and describe the solutions provided by TransportGistics.
Instructions
Provide a thoughtful reflection of what you have learned. It is not a summary of the chapters, but rather a view of the concepts that are of value to your personal learning experience. This can be a topic from the text readings, lecture, or an application of what you have learned.
Provide your personal thoughts and ideas for this assignment. Do not plagiarize your responses for this assignment. Definitions are not to be included in your responses. Do not number the paragraphs. Appropriately cite your sources. Do not retype the instructions/requirements for this assignment.
Post your initial response and you will be given access to the Turnitin summary report. You are able to resubmit your document up to three times before the due date.
Word Count Requirement: 250 words