1. Our road map in the Leader’s Handbook begins and ends with the six practices of leadership. Even though these steps are interdependent and are not sequential, developing a vision and strategy is an incredibly difficult task. In many ways, if you think of this from a competitive standpoint, you are creating a future, rather than following one. That takes a substantial amount of risk! For this week, critically analyze your company’s vision and strategy. Look at both the content and activities and then use the ‘five tests for your strategy’ and offer your opinion on creating a sustainable competitive advantage.

2. Life as we know it is busy and there is no shortage of items and activities that draw our attention and use up our time. As Master’s students, there is no shortage of things to do! Yet, our spiritual health is incredibly important. Do you have a strategy for managing your spiritual health? Do share but please, back your words up with His Words. Share with us your go to scriptures and those that help you find peace amidst the hurried environment we live.

From our readings this week, you will be required to write a brief summary for each of the theoretical models or concepts covered. The key here is to develop an inventory or reference guide to help you apply the theory/concept to a given situation. Each concept covered should at minimum be accompanied by a definition, and a paragraph explaining its application. You would be advised to include more pertinent information although this can easily be retrievable in the readings if it is referenced. See the example provided for you to serve as a template.

Final Project-Creating an Online Community

New York Stock Exchange As you have seen throughout the course, new media holds the power to bring people together as communities. Businesses and organizations around the world have recognized the importance of such communities, and developing online spaces for people to come together is now big business. In your Proposal and Annotated Bibliography, you selected a topic for a multimedia presentation proposing a New Media venture that will use what you have learned (during this course) to create a community for your chosen group. Now its time to present what you have learned as a multimedia presentation to potential investors in your new media venture to convince them why your new media venture will succeed.

To help you think about how you might present a pitch for your new media venture, you may want to review pitches that entrepreneurs have offered on the TV Shark Tank such as this one, Cate App (Links to an external site.) [Video file, 11:07 minutes] 

This assignment requires you to create a multimedia presentation. Imagine that you are presenting a pitch to investors to convince them to fund your new media product. Your multimedia presentation may be presented in the form of a slideshow using presentation software such as PowerPoint (Links to an external site.) or Prezi (Links to an external site.), a video, a podcast (Links to an external site.), or another form that is appropriate to your topic and allows for the use of more than one medium, such as text, video, audio, etc. This activity aligns with module outcomes 1, 2 and 3.

Writing Requirements:

An introduction providing an overview of your topic and your new media venture. Why should investors be interested in your product or service?
A discussion of who your audience will be and why they need your product or service. What do you know about the audiences demographics? How will you use what you know to tailor your product or service to their needs and their expectations about new media? What research supports the need for this product or service?
An analysis of how your new media venture will build a community. What elements will help it succeed? How can you use what youve learned about communities to make your product or service more effective?
An identification of at least one ethical concern that might arise from your new media venture and an analysis of how you plan to address that concern. Some potential issues might include the potential for cyberbullying, the digital divide, catfishing, etc.
A conclusion that sums up your product or service and tries to convince investors to finance you.
Technical Requirements:

Present a slideshow of 10-12 slides, a video or podcast of no less than 6 minutes, or an equivalent presentation in another format.
Use at least one multimedia element such as an information-rich visual aid (such as a graph or chart), an audio component (such as a sound bite), or an embedded video.
Please refer to subject guide (Links to an external site.) in the Excelsior Library to help you perform research. Find 5 resources outside the course to support or develop your ideas. You may use the resources from your M4A1 Annotated Bibliography.
In addition, use and cite at least 2-3 resources from the course in your presentation as well.
Cite the text, specified readings, and research (with page numbers) and reference them at the end of the presentation using APA style.

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The California Supreme Court ruled that an employer will be liable for injuries sustained by individuals due to the negligent driving of one of its employees, stating the following: A person injured by someone driving a car in the course of employment may sue not only the driver but also that driver’s employer. The employer can be sued on two legal theories based on tort principles: respondeat superior and negligent entrustment.

Respondeat superior, a form of vicarious liability, makes an employer liable, irrespective of fault, for negligent driving by its employee in the scope of employment. The theory of negligent entrustment makes an employer liable for its own negligence in choosing an employee to drive a vehicle.

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper, written in the third-person voice, that addresses the following:

Explore different types of principal-agency relationships, and determine what type of relationship exists in this case between the driver, Jose Carcamo, and the company, Sugar Transport of the Northwest, LLC.
What course of action do you recommend with respect to the lawsuit and Carcamo’s employment?
Does Sugar Transport’s HR department have any responsibility for their role in hiring Carcamo? If so, what other employment law issues do you find legally problematic concerning the hiring of Carcamo? Identify them and explain the legal issues and laws that were violated.

Include justification for your responses by citing applicable laws and/or legal cases in your discussion.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines, and include headings that appropriately signal topics and that keep your document organized.

Never use the first- or second- person perspective in APA style writing, including annotations (e.g., I, me, my, you, your, we, us, our).

Use a minimum of three different sources within the paper in addition to the laws and legal cases required above, and provide in-text citations. Any laws and legal cases used in the body of your paper must also be included in the References page.