Successful entrepreneurs often combine specific traits, such as creativity or tenacity, with strategic innovation to achieve their goals. In this discussion, you will explore how successful entrepreneurs use specific traits and innovation strategies to achieve their goals. By analyzing insights from a podcast, you will connect real-world examples to course concepts on entrepreneurship and innovation.

Task
This discussion invites you to listen to a podcast, analyze its insights, and connect them to entrepreneurial traits and innovation strategies discussed in the course.

In your initial post, address the following:

Choose and Reflect on a Podcast
Select a podcast episode from the following list:
How I Built This by Guy Raz https://www.npr.org/series/490248027/how-i-built-this
The Tim Ferriss Show https://tim.blog/podcast/
Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman
Cite the podcast and summarize the episode’s key insights, focusing on one entrepreneurial trait or innovation strategy highlighted.
Entrepreneurial Traits. Identify a specific entrepreneurial trait from the episode and explain how this trait contributed to success and provide an example of its application.
Innovation Strategies. Discuss how the entrepreneur or organization used innovation to address a challenge or create an opportunity and connect this example to course readings or concepts.
In your responses to your peers, address the following:

Expand on their analysis by adding insights or examples from the course, your experience, or other podcasts.
Reflect on how their chosen trait or strategy aligns with your understanding of entrepreneurial success. Suggest ways to overcome challenges or enhance the strategies discussed.

 

DISCUSSION QUESTON(S):

All Country Insurance wants to upgrade its network protection based on a string of recent breaches. The chief information officer (CIO) boasts that his business network has never had security issues and already has a properly configured firewall. All Country has a number of field service representatives selling various insurance policies that require different levels of network access.

The ability to meet the requests for information and control network access of information has become difficult.

For your main post, develop a resolution summary describing how you can provide access to the network based on user credentials, maintain control over access points, and detect access attempts by unauthorized users. Your main post needs to address network access, tracking, and alerts that relate to the concerns of this situation.

Topic: After reading both Dr. Noble’s Algorithms of Oppression and Roger McNamee’s Zucked, your task is to select one issue/idea raised by the two texts, research it further, and create an argument that is either original or adds original content to an already established argument. Please do not merely restate what has already been argued by Noble and McNamee.

Scholarly Investigation/Adding to the Conversation

To get started, you’ll need to develop an original research question. To tackle this open-ended, “big burning” thinking question, you have to gather sources to help you develop your own analysis and discussion.

What you explore is up to you, but it should be something specific, something that calls for further analysis, and connected to some specific layer presented in Algorithms of Oppression and Zucked. Likewise, the essay should be exploratory in nature. Go beyond what you already know or think. Your research is a look into something new for you and your readers. Since the texts may just scratch the surface of many of these issues (and sparks many questions), your job as a writer and researcher is to go further in-depth on a specific layer.
Conducting Research/Using Sources (Analytically)

The research process is a chance for you to move outside of our class context and the lens of both Noble and McNamee by engaging with a wider range of sources, voices, and perspectives. The sources that you bring into the essay should act as a lens for you to test, develop, complicate, and evolve your initial claim or question you are setting up early on. Use of sources should be analytical so you do more than just bring in the source to provide facts or “proof” for points you already know to be true. Dealing with your sources, in this case, is a way for you to examine multiple perspectives and develop analysis/discussion.
In class, we will be talking about how to gather credible sources for your essay, including a close look at the GCC library databases. You may use any type of medium, as long as you can justify its credibility as evidence in your paper (this includes books, documentaries, newspapers, magazines, scholarly journals, online clips, interviews, etc). Keep in mind that online resources are often not very credible nor scholarly; use the internet with caution. Wikipedia, for instance, is not a credible source. Just typing your topic into Google and going with the top choices isn’t really research, as we all know the biases relating to Google searches! Consider where you might gather a good mix of sources, with appropriate credibility, to help you engage your research question.

You’ll want to have a mix of sources to work with. For the essay, you will be required to build conversation with at least five secondary sources, plus Algorithms of Oppression and Zucked. In that mix of sources must be at least two sources (articles/essays/books, etc) retrieved from the GCC library databases. Therefore, you will have a total of at least seven sources listed on your Works Cited page. You must have at least one quote or paraphrase from each source, although I suspect you will have more.
Assignment Requirements:
❑ Your essay should follow strict MLA guidelines, with 1’’ side margins, 1” header and footer margins, Times New Roman, 12 point font, and at least 2500 words of essay text. Word Count does not include headings/headers/Works Cited etc.

❑ Your essay should include a strong working thesis to help focus your essay; this is a main complex claim or thinking question you set up early on and develop/refine/complicate as the paper unfolds. Your claims should represent complexity in thinking through your ideas and need to be supported or developed by evidence (details, sources, representative examples).

❑ Bring in at least five secondary sources, plus Algorithms of Oppression and Zucked, into your essay that you are “in conversation with.” You are required to have at least two articles/essays from the GCC databases. Keep in mind that you want your sources to be credible, or you have to make them credible through your own analysis.

❑ As you incorporate your sources, accurately summarize the ideas, theories, terms, or concepts you are using from that source to offer context (making sure your summary is understandable to a reader who is not familiar with the source you’re introducing). Always include both article name and author name upon first introduction of the text.
❑ Add to and help develop the ideas from the sources you bring in to help you introduce your own thinking about the topic you are writing about. Your sources should be a springboard for your own claims, questions, and analysis. In other words, you must “do something” with your sources. Be sure to clarify the meaning of the material you have quoted, paraphrased, or summarized and explain its significance in light of your evolving thesis.

❑ Support your claims with reasoning and evidence – making sure to link the evidence to the claim(s). You’ll want to include a few of the various kinds of evidence available to analytical writers. Head’s Up: If I suspect ChatGPT or any other AI is used, or if you have plagiarized in any way, I won’t read the paper and you will automatically get 0 points. Trust yourself and your writer’s voice. You are here to improve your writing. Give yourself that space!!

❑ As you move toward the conclusion, address the “so what?” question for your thesis.

❑ Clearly and explicitly explain your chain of reasoning – that is the thought-connections you are making throughout your draft between claims, evidence, & sources. The more clearly you explain connections to your readers, the more your readers will be able to follow your thinking.

❑ Cite all sources in MLA format (in text), in addition to a required Works Cited page. Remember that you must have a Works Cited page in addition to in-text citations for the paper to be eligible for passing.

❑ Proofread and edit your paper before turning it in. Make certain the work reflects your writing and ideas, unless otherwise cited in the text, and there is no plagiarism or academic dishonesty involved, including the use of AI generated language or ideas. If the work reflects any academic dishonesty, it will be a non-passing paper.

❑ Your essay must be turned in by the due date, on Canvas. No late essays will be accepted. Add your word count at the end of the paper.

Write minimum 2 pages total.
Attach your answers as a word document not a PDF file.
Separate your 4 answers so that it is easy to know where one answer ends and the other one starts.

No need to rewrite the questions in your report.
1 Describe in detail, in your own words the following terms:
Country of origin (COO)
Consumer ethnocentrism
2 Describe in detail, in your own words the following terms:
Glocalization
Cross-subsidization

3 Describe in detail, in your own words the following terms:
Qualitative data
Quantitative data
Structured question
Unstructured question
4 Describe in detail, in your own words the following terms:
Trade surplus
Trade deficit
Use APA 7 Format and list all your references.

What is a scatter diagram and linear correlation? How can you use a scatter diagram to visually estimate the degree of linear correlation of two random variables?

Provide an example of two specific random variables and explain how can you use correlations, to forecast one of the variables.

This could be an example: The more classes a student misses, the more likely their grades are to decrease. One variable is the absences, the other is the grade. So you can forecast the final grade of an student, based on the number of absences. There are many real examples.

Note: Please review the video below regarding the subject matter.

It is easier to calculate the correlation data using MS Excel?

Please note that there are two posts needed to successfully complete the discussion board assignment. An initial post addressing the discussion board topic is due by end of day Saturday. A response post to at least one other student is due by end of day Tuesday.

Walking and working surfaces pose some of the greatest hazards to people. This is especially true in the occupational setting where the uneven surfaces can range from sand and gravel to an elevated working platform.

After reading Chapter 27, look around your workplace or home at the various walking and working surfaces.

Do you consider your workplace or home to be hazardous? Discuss why you consider them a hazard. Share your evaluation, and compare it to your class members’ input.

STEP 2 RESPOND TO THE FOLLOWING:I had an incident where one of my workers was working at a site, and the ground had big pieces of gravel. they were walking and working on this for days, weeks, and months, but just that one time walking on the site, my employee had his ankle twist when walking on this surface, which caused him to have a broken ankle. We had lost time and medical bills, which made others weary of working on that surface. But after investigating it, there was nothing we could do to change the working and walking surface because it was our contractor’s lot. We just asked our employees to be careful and make sure they had adequately fitting boots on. So yes, this could be hazardous, but it just cannot be prevented at times.

Managed care can be represented by a number of abbreviations. Write a 3+ page paper on the following abbreviations.
MCO, HMO, NCQA, POS, FFS, HEDIS, CAHPS, UR, IPA, PPO. Provide a short definition of the abbreviations as well an abbreviated application of the definition. An example would be HMO (health maintenance organization) and the various models of the HMO i.e. staff model, gate keeper model.
Chapter 9 will be included in a word Doc file
The Citation is included at the end of the document

Veterinary and Veterinary nursing expertise only please! Using attachment COMPLETE VNO1 assignment as a template please edit to undergraduate standard this paper. It is essential that this paper is edited to the standard

Please follow ALL feedback that I have attached as pictures and notes in order to correct the assignment. Please also use the learner and TP handbook that  have attached to follow the learning outcomes stated in the Task templates. There is also a VNO1 assignment grading grid attached as a picture which highlights more reasons why the previous writer fell short of a pass mark. PLEASE CONTACT ME with any questions, communication is essential. Please also have knowledge in UK veterinary nursing and be able to apply the depth that the assessors are looking for as a veterinary nurse and not generally. Task 5 on SOPs does not need to be edited. The case scenario is 3.
Additional comments from 1:1 tutorial

• Overall surface level. Needs more depth, specifically from veterinary nursing point of view.
• Vocabulary too casual (use of words such as “cash”, not appropriate)
• Need to extend on knowledge and points.
• Too generalised. Could be writing about any profession, not veterinary nursing specifically. Needs to be more specific to veterinary nursing.
• USE T&L HANDBOOK TO GET FULL SCOPE OF LEARNING OUTCOMES.
• Grammar and punctuation needs to be corrected in some areas.
• Use veterinary specific terminology
• Evidence, evidence, evidence the learning outcomes (4 that have missed specifically)
• Need to show a deeper knowledge of veterinary nursing – not general (CPD etc..)

Write a short paper (one page) on how mixed messages are sent in the American socialization process concerning sex: On one hand, sex is portrayed as “natural” and something that everyone should feel comfortable with.

On the other hand, sex is presented as potentially “naughty” and something that has many uncertainties and fears associated with it. In your paper, provide examples of how you may have become aware of these inconsistencies—that sex is “healthy” on the one hand, but “dangerous” on the the other.

How have different social institutions been responsible for the messages you received concerning sex. Give examples.