Describe how Musk has exhibited each of the Big Five personality factors. Which of these factors do you think has the most correlation with Musk’s success as a leader?

Case 2.3 Elon Musk

When he was 12, Elon Musk created and sold his first product. That video game, Blastar, was the start of Musk’s meteoric entrepreneurial career, which has seen him take on everything from electric cars to space travel to alternative energy.

Musk grew up in South Africa, the son of an engineer and a Canadian model. In grade school Musk was introverted and often bullied, but at 15 he learned how to defend himself with karate and wrestling. He moved to Canada at 17 to attend university and three years later left Canada to attend the University of Pennsylvania where he earned degrees in economics and physics. In 1995, only two days into a PhD program in energy physics at Stanford, Musk dropped out to launch his first company, Zip2, with his brother Kimbal. An online city guide, Zip2 provided content for websites of both the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune. Four years later, Compaq Computer Corporation bought Zip2 for $307 million.

The Musk brothers then founded X.com, an online financial services/payments company, which became PayPal. Three years later, eBay acquired PayPal for $1.5 billion.

Now a billionaire, Musk started Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, or SpaceX, in 2002 with the intention of building reusable spacecraft for commercial space travel. A year after launching SpaceX, Musk became the cofounder, CEO, and product architect at Tesla Motors, dedicated to producing affordable, mass-market electric cars as well as battery products and solar roofs. He also launched several other side projects, including establishment of The Boring Company devoted to boring and building underground tunnels to reduce street traffic, becoming cochair of the nonprofit research organization OpenAI with the mission of advancing digital intelligence to benefit humanity, and development of the Hyperloop to create a more expedient form of transportation between cities.

But unlike his earlier ventures, both SpaceX and Tesla had considerable challenges. In 2008, Musk was nearly out of money after SpaceX’s Falcon 1 rocket, of which he was the chief designer, suffered three failed launches before it finally had a successful one. Meanwhile, Tesla was hitting speed bump after speed bump in the development of its vehicles, hemorrhaging money, and losing investor confidence as well as orders from customers who were unhappy with the long wait time to get their vehicles.

Musk faced these challenges the way he did as a bullied school kid: head on. “Leaders are . . . expected to work harder than those who report to them and always make sure that their needs are taken care of before yours, thus leading by example,” he said (Jackson, 2017).

At SpaceX, Musk continued to innovate, and the company accomplished a stunning number of achievements including successfully having rockets land safely back on earth after launches, transporting supplies to the International Space Station, and developing a rocket that could carry heavier payloads. By 2019, SpaceX had 6,000-plus contracts, worth $12 billion, with NASA and other commercial satellite companies. The company, which says its ultimate mission is to foster interplanetary life, is planning a cargo mission to Mars in 2022 (Space Exploration Technologies Corp., 2020).

Many credit SpaceX’s success to the unified culture at the company created by its fairly flat organizational structure and the fact that, despite its growth, the company still maintains a start-up mentality and feel.

“It’s an incredible place to work,” said one engineer. “There’s a great sense of connectedness between everyone. Everyone’s got the same goal in mind. Everyone’s working super hard to deliver a product successfully. It’s amazing when it all culminates in launch” (Mind & Machine, 2017).

Dolly Singh, the former head of human resources at SpaceX, said, “The thing that makes Elon Elon is his ability to make people believe in his vision” (Snow, 2015). Jim Cantrell, SpaceX’s first engineer, added, “He is the smartest guy I’ve ever met, period. I know that sounds overblown. But I’ve met plenty of smart people, and I don’t say that lightly. He’s absolutely, frickin’ amazing. I don’t even think he sleeps” (Feloni, 2014).

But to turn Tesla around, Musk had to roll up his shirtsleeves. The company, which was four years behind on the production of its Model 3, was under severe public scrutiny from investors and industry analysts. After missing one deadline after another, Musk restructured the organization in April 2018 and took over as the head of engineering to personally oversee efforts in that division. In a 2018 Twitter post, Musk said that to meet production goals, it was time to “divide & conquer, so I’m back to sleeping at factory.” By the end of June 2018, Tesla had met its goal of producing 5,000 Model 3 cars per week, while churning out another 2,000 Model S sedans and Model X SUVs (Sage & Rodriguez, 2018).

Musk has been described as an unconventional leader, even by Silicon Valley standards. He is a prolific tweeter in which he comments on everything from building cyborg dragons, to jokes about bankruptcy, to mixing Ambien with red wine (Davies, 2018). He has graced magazine covers and goes on talk shows and appeared on animated television shows The Simpsons and South Park. His peculiar sense of humor was on dramatic display when he launched his own red Tesla Roadster sports car into space atop the first SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. At the same time, some of his behavioral quirks have also become liabilities.

In a public earnings call with investors and financial analysts, Musk attacked two analysts for asking what he called “bonehead” and “dry” questions that he refused to answer, resulting in Tesla’s stock value plunging 10% (Davies, 2018). When his efforts to assist in the rescue of 12 young soccer players and their coach from a flooded cave in Thailand were criticized as self-aggrandizing rather than serious, Musk responded with a tweet calling one of the divers involved in the rescue “pedo guy,” insinuating he was a child molester (Levin, 2018).

In August 2018, Musk wrote on Twitter that he was considering taking Tesla private and that he had the necessary funding “secured” to do so. As a result, Tesla’s stock price immediately shot up, gaining the attention of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which investigated and ultimately fined Musk $20 million. Less than two weeks after that episode, Musk gave an emotional interview with the New York Times, in which he alternately laughed and cried in a display that left many questioning his mental state and sent Tesla investors into sell mode with their stock (Crum, 2018).

Not long after that interview, Musk changed his mind and said Tesla would remain a public company. He followed that decision with an appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast during which he smoked what was said to be a marijuana-laced cigarette (Davies, 2018).

“The reason Elon seems to attract drama is that he is so transparent, so open, in a way that can come back to bite him,” his brother and Tesla board member Kimbal Musk told the New York Times. “He doesn’t know how to do it differently. It’s just who he is” (Gelles, 2018).

After all of the drama in 2018, there were many concerns about where Tesla would go in 2019. The answer? Tesla ended 2019 on a high note, with a record stock price topping out at more than $400 per share.

“It’s been quite the turnaround for Musk since his ‘funding secured’ tweet debacle of last year,” one analyst noted. “Tesla’s stock has been one of the top performers of the second-half of the year and Musk is proof that you can take on the SEC, smoke weed on podcasts, call people pedo guy and still run a $70 billion company” (Crum, 2018).

Questions

1. Describe how Musk has exhibited each of the Big Five personality factors. Which of these factors do you think has the most correlation with Musk’s success as a leader?
2. If you were asked to design a leadership training program based on the trait approach, how could you incorporate the story of Elon Musk and his leadership? Around which of his traits would you structure your training? Are some of his leadership traits more teachable than others? Discuss.

How does the community health nurse recognize bias, stereotypes, and implicit bias within the community?

 How does the community health nurse recognize bias, stereotypes, and implicit bias within the community? How should the nurse address these concepts to ensure health promotion activities are culturally competent? Propose strategies that you can employ to reduce cultural dissonance and bias to deliver culturally competent care. Include an evidence-based article that address the cultural issue. Cite and reference the article in APA format. 

What specific branch of the U.S. government is involved in this current event?

Imagine you are a political writer with your own blog. You write about current events and what they mean for the U.S. government and its citizens. You have been asked to write a blog post of 2-3 typed pages about an event from the last 3 months involving U.S. political issues or policies.

Instructions

Step 1: Choose one of the following political issues or policies:

• the U.S. President
• congress
• administrative departments
• political activists
• judicial rulings
• a campaign
• an election

Step 2: Choose 1 reputable news source that has reported on your chosen event.

Here are some sources to choose from:

• liberal leaning news: The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Vox, HuffPost, Politico, CNN, Time Magazine
• conservative leaning news: National Review, The Washington Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Federalist, Fox Online News, Washington Examiner
• centrist news: NPR Online News (National Public Radio), Reuters, BBC, CNBC News, USA Today, Christian Science Monitor, Pew Research Center
• To see ratings of news sources, visit AllSides’s Media Bias Ratings.

Step 3: Summarize your chosen current event in 1-2 paragraphs. Include what the event is, when it took place, and the political issues or policies to which it connects.

Step 4: In addition to your brief summary, answer each of the following questions:

1. What specific branch of the U.S. government is involved in this current event? (1-2 paragraphs)
    
2. Who or which groups are affected by this event? (1-2 paragraphs)
    
3. What biases or leanings exist in the media source you chose? Give examples. Were these counterbalanced in any way? (1-2 paragraphs)
    
4. What are your opinions on the issue? Use relevant facts and supporting evidence from your source(s) to support your opinion. (1-2 paragraphs)

Step 5: Cite your selected news article and any other sources.

Note: You should be conscious of your own bias and make every effort to avoid biased, opinionated, emotional, or judgmental language in this summary. That means avoiding words such as “always,” “obviously,” “clearly,” etc. 

identify a category of crime, provide a specific example of the elements of the offense from your state (or state of your choosing) and discuss the investigative approaches and choices that an investigator would most likely consider when conducting an investigation.

In at least three (3) pages, identify a category of crime, provide a specific example of the elements of the offense from your state (or state of your choosing) and discuss the investigative approaches and choices that an investigator would most likely consider when conducting an investigation.

In your paper:

(1) identify the category of crime that you will be exploring: Crimes Against Persons; Crimes Against Property; or Crimes Against Society;

(2) identify at least ONE statute from your state (or state of your choice) associated with that crime category and explain the major elements of that offense that need to be investigated and proven;

(3) discuss the type of crime scene you may encounter with that type of offense and how you would handle that crime scene – will it be a large complex scene with many witnesses, lots of physical evidence, or a small scene with no witnesses, etc; OR is this the type of crime that requires special investigation techniques like confidential informants, undercovers, surveillance, etc?

(4) discuss the type(s) of evidence you are likely to be collecting from that scene – is it mostly witness statements, or forensic evidence like DNA, fingerprints, computer evidence, etc – and how you would best handle that evidence;

(5) for the type(s) of evidence you are collecting, what are the potential challenges you may be expected to overcome? Is contamination an issue? What types of witnesses/victims to you potentially come across that would potentially cause reliability issues?

(6) do you think the type of crime you are investigating will likely lead to search warrants? If so, what would you be searching for, where would it be, and what level of evidence do you need to obtain that search warrant?

(7) for the type of investigation you have selected, discuss the clearance rate of offense in general (see reading below) and give an opinion as to if that rate can be improved or not. If you believe it can be improved, explain what additional resources or techniques would lead to improvement. If you do not believe the clearance rate can be improved, give an opinion as to why not.

NOTE: If you chose to discuss Crimes Against Society, discuss what you think the biggest challenge is associated with detecting/investigating the type of offense you selected and what types of additional resources or techniques could lead to more successful investigations of that type of crime.

READING: Lesson 16 – FBI 2018 UCR Clearance Rates – Violent Crime and Property Crime.pdf

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Submission Requirements

• APA Style elements required
• Separate Title Page with Name, class, date and topic/title
• At least three (3) pages of your writing on this topic that includes using in-text citations (NOT including title page and reference page)
• 12 point font
• Times New Roman or Arial
• Separate Reference Page – List detailed source information for all references
• You should include AT LEAST THREE (3) sources in your reference page in your final project. The class text plus two additional sources would be appropriate.

 Write a 3-4 page letter in which you analyze your leadership skills and how you would use them to lead a project requiring group collaboration. 

 Write a 3-4 page letter in which you analyze your leadership skills and how you would use them to lead a project requiring group collaboration. 

I need quality work, original work, references within 3 years, and teacher is a hard grader.

Explain the symptoms of any major adverse effects. What should clients do if they experience them?

Assignment Scenario
After graduating from nursing school and passing your boards, you accepted a position as an RN in the Progressive Cardiac Care Unit (PCCU) at Rasmussen General Hospital (RGH). In the weeks ahead, the PCCU plans to implement a new initiative where clients who had superventricular tachycardia will be sent home on an oral antidysrhythmic drug, quinidine.

Historically, clients diagnosed with superventricular tachycardia were treated first in the PCUU and then they were transferred to the hospital’s observation unit for 24 hours and then sent home. However, when surveyed about their experiences, many clients reported they did not like moving to a new unit for 24 hours, it was considered time-consuming, and inconvenient. Under RGH’s new program, PCCU nurses will be responsible for educating clients about their new medication and administering the first dose to the client before discharge instead of transferring clients to the observation unit for 24 hours.

As part of this new initiative, all PCCU nurses at RGH must be trained to properly educate these clients on all aspects of their new medication regimen. Because you have demonstrated a keen interest in pharmacology, your manager has asked you to develop the educational tools that will be used to train the nurses at RGH.

Assignment Instructions
Your manager explained that all of the PCCU nurses at RGH will be educated in small groups through a short, in-service training session. You have been asked to develop a professional-looking PowerPoint presentation that the trainers will use to guide the in-service sessions. Your PowerPoint will need to:
Be professional-looking (show current evidence-based practices), have a title slide, and 10-15 content slides.
Use the Speaker Notes feature in PowerPoint to reduce the amount of text that appears on the content slides.
The Speaker Notes for each slide will contain the text that will guide what the trainer will say while presenting the slides during the in-service.
The speaker notes should be written in full sentence format. The speak notes should show comprehension of the material, this means the speaker notes should add additional information to the notes on the slide; they should explain definitions, diagrams, and provide examples. The speaker notes should be easy to understand and follow. The speaker notes should add to the presentation and not be directly copied from the content slides. (Speaker notes should follow APA guidelines)
The Speak Notes need to be copied onto a word document and submitted through grammeraly.
The content slides themselves should be clear and easy to understand; they serve as an outline so the audience can follow along with what is being presented (Slide should follow APA guidelines)
Both slides and speaker notes should be written using proper spelling/grammar and at a level that would be appropriate for the audience.
Remember the purpose of the training is to help nurses learn about this medication so they can educate their clients about the use of a medication. With that in mind, it may be helpful to provide examples of how to explain the information to a client in an easy-to-understand way without complicated, technical terms.
Include APA formatted in-text citations on each slide as well as in the speaker notes. This assignment requires 3 scholarly references and present the sources in APA format on a References slide.
Contain content addressing the items below.
Pharmacotheraputics
State the drug name and its therapeutic category
Pharmacodynamics (how does this drug work? How does it affect the body?)
Pharmacokinetics (how is this drug absorbed, distributed, metabolized, and excreted; why is this information important to the nurse? How can the nurse use this information to provide safe patient care?).
Discuss dosage, scheduling, route, and length of therapy.
Describe what clients can expect regarding their therapeutic response and when it should develop
Introduce non-drug measures that clients can do to enhance their therapeutic response (e.g., specific diet to follow, exercise requirements, substances to avoid, special precautions to take, etc.)
Side Effects, Adverse Effects, and Interactions
Explain the symptoms of common side effects, and what clients can do to minimize any discomfort. Ask yourself what can nurses do to prevent and/or treat some of the common side effects listed?
Explain the symptoms of any major adverse effects. What should clients do if they experience them?How can clients prevent these major adverse effects? How can nurses assess for these adverse effects? How can nurses prevent and/or treat these adverse effects?
List the major adverse drug-drug interactions and drug-food interactions that clients need to be made aware of
Follow-up Care
Provide information regarding when clients should call their doctor for advice (e.g., questions, non-urgent symptoms, unpleasant side effects, etc.)
Emphasize any symptoms for which clients should seek immediate care (e.g., when to go to the emergency center or call 911)

The following items need to be turned in to complete this assignment:
The power-point presentation with speaker notes
The word document with the speaker notes

What do you think are two of the barriers that keep people from saving for retirement?

Benchmark – Personal Finance Plan

Assessment Description

The purpose of this assignment is to provide you the opportunity to apply sound financial principles and practices to the management of your current and future personal finances.

Part 1: Six Topics of Financial Planning

There are six major components of a financial plan. These include:

1. Financial (Cash Flow) Management
2. Tax Planning
3. Insurance Planning (Risk      Management)
4. Investing/Asset Planning
5. Retirement Planning
6. Estate Planning

For Part 1 of this assignment, you will complete the following pieces of your own personal financial plan.

Financial (Cash Flow) Management

• You will need your original cash flow estimate that you created in Topic 1 and your “Daily Spending Log,” in which you worked on tracking your expenses for one month. Create a spreadsheet that lists the various expense categories in one column, the dollar amounts of your original estimates of your monthly expenses in the next, and then shows your actual expenses that you tracked in your spending log in the next column. Note: Your actual expenses in many categories will likely be quite different from your original estimates. There is no need to have spent what you predicted. In fact, much awareness can come from the areas in which your estimates where different from your actual spending.
• Next, add a “Spending Plan for Next Month” column. Based on the differences in your      spending estimate and the actual amounts from tracking spending, determine what dollar amounts you would now set for each category. If you find that you need to add new categories now that you have tracked your own actual spending, please feel free to add those.
• Indicate whether each expense category is a need or a want.

Write two or three paragraphs reflecting on the month of spending that you tracked and answer the following questions:

• What surprised you about your actual spending versus what you had estimated?
• Describe what you will or will not change for your spending plan next month and the reasons why. 
• Describe how your spending plan will help you meet your financial goals and increase your net worth (refer to the balance sheet you created in Topic 1).
• How could you use this process for your financial goals?

Tax Planning

• Review your Topic 3 Financial Portfolio submission. Provide two paragraphs on what you can do to minimize your tax liability both now and in the future (imagine life changes that may occur).

Insurance Planning (Risk Management)

• Review your submission for Financial Portfolio Project Part 5 about insurance. Submit a revised      response based on feedback you received or on new ideas you now have regarding your insurance needs. If you do not have any changes to make, include a detailed justification describing why.

Investing/Asset Planning

Investing is covered in the next topic of the course. For the purpose of this assignment, you will include a brief description of how much you know about investing. Provide two paragraphs addressing the following: 

• How would you rate your current understanding and knowledge of investing?
• How do you think investments will help you reach your financial goals?

Retirement Planning

Provide two paragraphs addressing the following points:

• What expenses will likely be higher during your retirement than now?
• What do you think are two of the barriers that keep people from saving for retirement?
• How will you overcome these barriers in your own retirement planning?

Estate Planning

Provide two paragraphs addressing the following points:

• What estate planning tools will you consider after establishing a family or career? 
• Provide at least two tools and a reason that they might meet your future plans. 

Part 2: Financial Plans and Goals

Recall your life goals as a basis for setting meaningful financial goals and accomplishing them.

In 250-500 words, address the following points:

• Provide an explanation of how you can implement your financial plans and goals. These can relate to the six main financial planning topics or include other topics, such as giving, education planning, credit, etc.
• How will you evaluate whether or not you are on track to meet your financial goals? Do you need to make any adjustments to meet your financial goals?
• Identify one thing you have learned so far in this course and how you will apply it to your life.

General Requirements

While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

Benchmark Information

5.3: Apply sound financial principles and practices to the management of one’s personal finances.

Discuss the reasons why victims often do not report the crime to the police.

Crime Statistics

Using the crime statistics from the FBI’s UCR, select a city in the United States whose crime stats are available. Then, select three crimes prevalent in the city and discuss their crime rates. In addition, answer the following questions:

What do you think accounts for these crime?

How can the city reduce these incidents of crime?

Discuss the reasons why victims often do not report the crime to the police.

Does the data show the same patterns for violent crimes and property crimes? What could be the possible reasons for this? According to NCVS data, older, white people tend to be more fearful of violent crime victimization. According to your analysis of violent crime victimization rates, what is the basis of their fear? Which segment of the population suffers more violent crime victimization? Does this segment feel as fearful of such victimization as older people? What might be the reasons for this?
There is a long-standing stereotype that the poor and minorities are the sources of the majority of crime problems in the United States. Lately, however, there is considerable debate regarding this view, and more broadly, regarding the relationship between social class and crime.
Discuss how each of the following could impact the disproportion between crime across different racial and income groups:

Police dispersion in poor and minority areas.

The focus of police on blue-collar crime.

The outward (on the street) nature of crime in poor areas.

The hidden nature of white-collar crime.

explain why such practices are important, and also offer some recommendations for next steps.

Dirty Data Is Costing You.pdf
post must be a minimum of 300 words

This week’s assigned reading discusses the organizational issues associated with “dirty data” and offers recommendations for four ways to overcome common data prep barriers.
For this discussion, assume you work for a small company (100 employees) that is quickly growing (both in terms of revenue and number of employees). As the organization is growing, issues with “dirty data” are beginning to arise – for all the reasons mentioned in the reading.
As a tech-savvy data analyst, you can see that something must be done to keep dirty data from becoming a problem for the company as it grows. You’ve been granted an audience with the CIO to make the case for putting sound data preparation practices in place. In making the case, you want to explain why such practices are important, and also offer some recommendations for next steps. What will you say? Use the reading to help you make your case. Outside references are also acceptable (please link to them in your response).

Have any entities come out in support or against the policy?  What are the concerns or support for the policy? 

Hospital margins have grown and shrunk over the last few years.  Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals were collectively, averaging a margin of 8 percent, which was higher than most of the other health care sectors.  
Assignment:
Read the article found at the link below.  The article provides six possible policies to control hospital prices. 
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/high-price-hospital-care/#:~:text=Get%20the%20Latest%20on%20Health,industry%20or%20the%20insurance%20industry.

Which of the discussed is viable?  Summarize the policy and then support the viability of the policy with evidence.  Use external information and cite your sources to support your case.  A lack of supporting evidence and citations will lower the number of points you will earn with this assignment. Some suggestions for consideration are below. 
Has any progress been made on this policy?  Has it been proposed or enacted at the state level?  If so, has it been successful or not?
Have any entities come out in support or against the policy?  What are the concerns or support for the policy?  Be sure to cite this information since it is not your information. 
Is there supporting documentation for contentions made in the article corroborated by external sources?  Summarize and cite the external source.
Be sure to provide citations for any content used from readings, videos, or the internet in APA format at the bottom of your post.