How important are your followers to your leadership? Do your followers have the ability to follow your leadership?

Questions for Reflection and Discussion
1. How would you define a follower? How important are your followers to your leadership?

2. Do your followers have the ability to follow your leadership? Are they willing to follow your leadership? If yes, why? If no, why not?

3. Which stage of follower readiness best describes your followers as a whole? Do you have any late or never followers? How do you know? What, if anything, are you doing about them?

4. How much opposition are you experiencing in your church? How are you handling it? Have you exercised any church discipline of those who should be disciplined? If yes, what have you done? If no, why not?

5. How important is it to you that people like you? To what extremes, if any, will you go to get people to like you? What effect does this have on your ministry?

What is your desire for the people who look to you for leadership?

More specifically, what do you want to be able to do for frustrated individuals who do not have the competence or commitment to accomplish an assigned task?

And what do you want to do for those people who not only are able to do the task on their own but also can teach others?

How can your organization most benefit from people who not only are good at doing their jobs but who also are willing and able to teach others?

Consider how demographics changes like race, ethnicity, or partisanship influence voting and election outcomes.

1. For a background to gerrymandering, reference course materials and watch this video that presents an overview on how legislators stay in power as a result of legislative redistricting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s6erd5MbEY

2. Next, go to the Texas Tribune website that shows the new voting maps based on the 2020 Census, and type in your address to view any changes between the 2010 and 2020 voting maps: https ://apps.texastribune. org/features/2021/texas-redistricting-map/

Consider how demographics changes like race, ethnicity, or partisanship influence voting and election outcomes.

Think about political motivations for making these particular changes between the 2010 and 2020 maps.

Watch the videos, visit the links below, and answer the questions. Minimum 300 words Videos : Is there a difference between art and craft?

Assignment: Watch the videos, visit the links below, and answer the questions. Minimum 300 words

Videos :

1. Is there a difference between art and craft? – Laura Morelli- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVdw60eCnJI

2. Jennifer Angus, “Dying of Curiosity” at the Hudson River Museum Feb. 10 – May 13, 2018- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSH305NUJAk

3. Touch of Weevil – The Work of Jennifer Angus- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Jl_8N4kI_U

Identify and briefly explain one way the digitization of music has changed the creation, distribution or consumption of music.

http://sk.sagepub.com.ezproxy.umgc.edu/reference/the-sage-handbook-of-popular-music/i3377.xml

After reading Prior’s article “Beyond Napster” and Heap’s commentary “Blockchain Could Help Musicians Make Money Again,” please do the following:

Identify and briefly explain one way the digitization of music has changed the creation, distribution or consumption of music.

Explain one unintended consequence of the rise of digital music. What problem(s) did this create in the music industry?

Do you think Heap’s proposed solution to music ownership could work? Why or why not?

Relate some of the history of digital music to how your music consumption changed over the past ten years.

Share one example of some of the first digital music you knew about.

Use two quotes from any of your resources to support or explain your points. Make sure to provide in-text citations for both quotes in MLA format.

Discuss how four references to history in the story Rip Van Winkle can be interpreted as ideas about how Americans in general deal with the concept of history when we live in a land of new beginnings.

Analysis of the theme of history in Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle.

Objective: Investigate and analyze the concept of history as it plays out in Rip Van Winkle

In this paper , discuss how four references to history in the story Rip Van Winkle can be interpreted as ideas about how Americans in general deal with the concept of history when we live in a land of new beginnings.

   How do high-level executives manage the tradeoffs between maintaining the fiscal solvency of their organizations and providing health care services to all who seek them?

Money is the lifeblood of any organization—for-profit, not-for-profit, or public. In most for-profit corporations, maximizing sales and profits, and returns to shareholders, is the primary objective. Many have criticized the healthcare industry for its growing fixation on profit maximization, claiming that health care should be treated as a “social good” rather than a “commercial good.”

●        How can the leaders of healthcare organizations reconcile these two positions?

●        How do high-level executives manage the tradeoffs between maintaining the fiscal solvency of their organizations and providing health care services to all who seek them?

How do the different funding types impact the strategic management of the facility?

Hospitals, outpatient centers, and free standing surgical centers are dependent on many funding sources to pay for their services.

  • **Compare and contrast approval/payment from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), commercial insurance, and the traditional Medicare program (not a Medicare health maintenance organization [HMO]) available to these types of facilities.
  • **How do the different funding types impact the strategic management of the facility?

Your initial posting should be addressed at 300-500 words. Be sure to cite your sources using APA format.