2. IN WRITING: Please prepare the following personal observations and in yo ur own opinion (no wrong answers): A.

What do you feel to be the Top 6 Overall Global Challenges facing or ganizations today (beginning with your own)? 1. Social acceptance risk and corporate social responsibility 2. Regulation and compliance 3. Slow recovery or double-dip recession 4. Managing talent 5. Emerging markets 6. Developing innovative ideas and products B. What do you feel to be the Top 3 Specific Governance & Ethics challe nges facing organizations today (beginning with your own)? C. In your own experience, what were the Top 3 Governance Issues and/or Ethical Problems with which you, personally, had to resolve or reconcile? How did you do it? D. Even with limited information, how would you improve the Governance and/or Ethical performance of the organizations of which you are currently a par t? 3. IN WRITING: At this point (and relative to your organizations and/or pro fessions), is there an area you would specifically like to have covered and/or i ncluded in this course? 4. HIGHLY VALUED: Your opinions on current events as will impact your Spons or organizations (include Chapter #3), current news events, changes of which you are aware, research from other classes. Particularly astute observations earn e xtra credit. 5. BEGIN GRID ANALYSES: You will be working with and tracking three(3) orga nizations: i. your current employer or organization and ii. two(2) additional companies/organizations of your own choosing. IN WRITING: Please prepare the following to hand it for my review: A. Identify 2 companies or organizations other than the one you work fo r for tracking. B. Create an ongoing listing of the top three business issues and/or mi ssion issues facing your own employer as well as both of your additional chosen companies/organizations. C. For each of the top three points (B., above) add the following comme nt to each company/organization: How would you either implement change (managed daily) or correct current aberrations for each one? D. For each of the three(3) companies/organizations you will track plea se do a SHORT S.W.O.T. analysis [Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats l imited to 4-5 key points in each category]. Do some preliminary research online and think about the implications. [If, by chance, you have not done one of these before, wait until the ne xt class. E. For each of the three(3) companies/organizations you will track, ple ase identify the Top 2 issues from each chapter you read that you feel either no w, or will shortly, most impact each. The Top 2 Issues will likely differ from o rganization-to-organization.