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    Core Competencies of Panera Bread

    In your opinion, what are the core competencies of the Panera Bread? How do these competencies help Panera Bread compete against competitors?

    Leadership Behavior: Executive Team and Board of Directors

    Approach this question from the perspective of the executive leadership but include the interaction between the executive team and the board of directors. Develop an analysis of the characteristics and team composition of leadership groups that might predispose these groups to deviate from standards of behavior either ethica

    Inter-Group Conflicts

    Discuss the dangers of inter-team conflict versus interpersonal policy and offer at least three strategies for reducing the negative effects of intergroup. What is your personal approach to leadership across cultural generational lines.

    Identify One Key Element of a Leader

    Key elements include honesty, delegation, communication, confidence, commitment, creativity, and last but not least, concern for followers. Identify one key element and explain why you think this is the most important ingredient of leadership for the future.

    Leadership Strategies Adapted

    Taking on the role of a CEO, explain how you would adapt the Western leadership strategies of either Heifetz and Linsky or Drucker in your approach to managing an international organization on the brink of structural change and expansion. One of your main goals will be to motivate and communicate a vision while connecting to th

    How can a leader adapt to changing environment

    Identify the top two areas that you believe need the most leadership development attention in an organization or environment. Summarize these needs and propose solutions for these conditions.

    Purposes of a balanced scorecard

    What is the purpose of a balanced scorecard? How is the balanced scorecard used to lead and manage an organization? How can the balanced scorecard be linked to organizational effectiveness as well as individual performance evaluation?

    Mastering Leadership Behavior

    Q1. How are task-oriented and relations-oriented behaviors related to effective leadership? Provide an example from your work experience. Q2. Locate two contemporary (2013 or more recent) journal articles that apply to the leadership theories in this case. Read the case Consolidated Products. Prepare your analysis to co

    Power and Politics in Organizations: Leaders and Followers

    1. Is power good or bad in organizations - why or why not? 2. Can management stop the use of power or politics in their organization - explain? 3. Can someone have a successful career by aspiring to be to be an effective follower - why or why not?

    Direct Marketing

    Discuss your thoughts and ideas about the newer trend of pharmaceutical and medical supply companies marketing directly to the consumer (e.g., ads about new medications, billboards for new hip and knee implants, etc.). What do you see as the pros and cons?

    Physician resentment

    What is your assessment of the origins and validity of physician resentment toward the push by a variety of health care entities to standardize care? If you were a physician, how would you be planning your practice for the future?

    Patients Judge Quality of Care

    Discuss your viewpoints on the question of whether patients can adequately understand and judge the quality of the health care services they receive. Use examples to explain your rationale and include any action items that you think would improve the current situation.

    Remote Work

    Ideas for a literature review are embedded in terms of offering common topics to compare and contrast, as well as some of these guided questions: •What is already known about the research topic you are interested in? •What is not known about your topic; where is there a gap in the literature? •What further research migh

    VP of Strategy's Responsibility: Maga Corporation

    Maga Corporation has appointed you as VP of strategy. Choose two of the leadership challenges that are presented by Gaur. Develop, and support with evidence and sound reasoning, a plan to overcome these challenges that you will present to the board of directors.

    Components of Sensationalism

    Describe a story that has been sensationalized, and explain a key component of sensationalism that was part of the way the story was presented.

    Strategic Planning Visioning Session

    It is important to build collaborative understanding and support with your stakeholders to develop and sustain a strategic plan. In the role of leader, you develop and lead a Strategic Visioning Session with your stakeholders. Develop a strategic planning visioning session with a government or nonprofit organization's board o

    21st century global leadership

    Provide a 10-step plan for leadership success in the global organization of the 21st century. Give details of theory and concepts and include specific examples.

    Critical Thinking: Assumption and Inference

    1. Define inference and assumption, and then explain the relationship between the two. Provide two examples of inferences that you made from assumptions that you have. 2. Describe two intellectual standards, and give examples of each from your own life.

    IBM's Financial Statements

    1. Discuss IBM's current and historical Financial Statements (Income Statement (I/S), Balance Sheet (B/S) and Statement of Cash Flows) from 2014, 2015, and 2016. The financial statements must include changes (deltas) between years. 2. Discuss Ratios from the most current and available 3 years with deltas and analysis 3. Altern

    Managing v. Leading

    Visit the Mind Tools website and search for leadership and management. What is the difference between leading and managing?

    Critical vs Natural Thinking

    Define critical thinking, and contrast this definition with the ways that humans naturally think. Explain at least two ways that you could become a better critic of your own thinking.

    Google's Strategy and Long Term Objectives

    What are Google's recommended strategy and long term objectives? Explain why you chose the strategy, and discuss how much the strategy will cost to implement and how much new revenue your strategy will create.