What issue, activity, or moment do you feel had the greatest impact on U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) throughout its history?  

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MA Questions
Q1
What issue, activity, or moment do you feel had the greatest impact on U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) throughout its history?  Although this is a very general question, within your initial posting you will need to support your argument through the use of outside research thereby practicing information literacy and academic rigor.  As such, this discussion is focused on a “thought” question, requiring the synthesis of material from the course lessons and outside research to develop an analytic response.  Further, your initial discussion posting will need to consist of the following:
Q2
Using sport related examples, illustrate the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. What kind of rewards would you use to enhance intrinsic motivation, and what are some reward examples that would be extrinsic in nature. Lastly, what is meant by, token reward, how and where does this concept apply to learning and performance?
Q3
A: Can you identify and comment on personal experiences where some activity fell outside the “mission” of what you were doing. It might be that you and your colleagues took some action and realized after the fact that the action fell outside the mission. On the other hand, you might have been planning to do something and someone in leadership said no because it fell outside the mission.
B: If Enron had a lengthy code of ethics, which it did, exactly what happened to ruin their reputation?
Q4
Your best friend owns a small children’s clothing store located in the downtown area of a community of 50,000 citizens. The business has been slow the past year due to the construction of several new strip malls and a new Walmart store (Increased competition). She discovered you were taking an online marketing class and asked for your advice for ideas to increase her sales (She owns her present building and will not relocate her business, even though the downtown area is losing stores to the new strip malls). What would you tell her based on what you have learned in this course?

Research 

Research small business marketing and low-cost promotional strategies

Discuss

· What advice would you offer your friend?
· What low-cost strategies could she employ to help stay competitive?
· Share your ideas on how small businesses can compete when larger businesses come to town.