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Essay Instructions: insights from literature of art:

last week of class we are sharing a leadership insights available from a poem, song, short story, little essay,play,parable, or powerful artistic symbol that i have to bring into class. whatever is done must be more than a quote or 2 and it must provide as a leader what i learned from it. Emphasize quality of insights over fancy presentations.

this professor is humorous and has a dark sense of humor, it must have to do with LEADERSHIP AND AGAIN WHAT I LEARNED FROM IT
thank you

Essay Instructions: Insight and interesting things from the book "Blood Done Sign My Name"

What I thought was interesting

Reflection

Book Report

Essay Instructions: Write a 2-complete page essay. When quoting and paraphrasing use quotation marks. When writing the essay You must cite the Author(s), Year and Page Number(s) within the body of the essay. State the question first and then continue to answer.

Read
Hawkins, Graham and Hall (2007) Tenure as a fact of academic life.
Dilts, Samavati, and Rahnama-Moghadam (2007) Economic motivation for post-tenure review in academic institutions.

Question
“What are some new insights you have found as you continue to read and explore the literature of Tenure and Post-Tenure Review?”


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Essay Instructions: Case Analysis
?Insight Paper? for Case 5: Namaste Solar

This is for an MBA course entitled ?Strategy Formulation & Implementation?.
The Textbook is: Crafting and Executing Strategy: The Quest for Competitive Advantage: Concepts & Cases, 18ed., ISBN 978-0-07-811272-0, Thompson, Peteraf, Gamble, & Strickland, McGrawHill-Irwin, 2012.
Please find a person with such background (eg: Business major) to write it. Thanks.
If you have any question, I can be reached at: 716-515-5406 (cell phone).
Frank
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Requirement for ?Insight? papers:
Insight papers are not edited versions of the case. They are 1-2 page insights into analysis, recommendations, relationships between case elements, strategic factors, consequences of decisions or recommended decision, etc, that are NOT readily apparent by simply reading the case or repeating information from the case.

This essay needs to be 2 pages (double spaced) and is recommended to be divided into 3 parts:
1. Brief case summary (should be less than half page)
2. Case analysis
3. Action plan/strategy implementation
After reading the attached material, please address some of the following questions listed below in the case analysis section and/or action plan section (The answers are in the attached ?Instructor?s manual? of this case in detail. Please limit your answers/analysis within 2 pages)

Recommended questions:
1. What is the mission of Namaste Solar? How does the mission reflect the company?s values? Explain.
2. Does it seem that Namaste Solar has made a commitment to operating in socially responsible manner? Is the company?s strategy ethical and does it address the needs of all of its stakeholders? Explain.
3. Is the company?s approach to strategy execution shaped sufficiently by its mission and values? How does the company?s approach to staffing the organization and building organizational capabilities support its strategy? Does its approach to decision making support good strategy execution? Why or why not?
4. How does Namast? Solar link rewards and incentives to strategically-important employee behaviors and the company?s targeted outcomes?
5. What are the key features of Namaste Solar?s organizational culture? Does the company?s culture support good strategy execution? Explain.
6. What are the three strategic options concerning the company?s future? What impact will a choice among the three options have on the company?s values and culture and employees and other stakeholders?
7. List the pros and cons of Paths A-C. What recommendation would you make to Blake Jones concerning the choice of a path for Nemaste Solar?s future?

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Instructions:
? Read the case ?Namaste Solar?. (Please see attached).
? Read attached ?key points? of Chapters 9-12 (The corresponding chapters in the textbook are Chapters 9-12. Because it is very long, I only attached ?key points? with this order).
? To make the writing easier, I attached the ?Instructor?s manual? of this case for you to use as reference only (Has detailed answers to above questions).