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13.What makes the managerial task of executing strategy so challenging and demanding is: A. the trial-and-error experimentation that is required to come up with a workable organizational structure.B. the people-management skills required, the resistance to change that has to be overcome, and the perseverance necessary to get a variety of initiatives launched and kept moving along.C. the time and effort it takes to build core competencies.D. the time, training, and creative effort it takes to empower employees and teach them responsible decision making.E. the supervisory requirements associated with getting company personnel to do things the right way.It takes first-rate "managerial smarts" to zero in on what exactly needs to be done and how to get good results in a timely manner. Excellent people-management skills and perseverance are required to get a variety of initiatives launched and to integrate the efforts of many different work groups into a smoothly functioning whole.
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14.Which of the following statements about implementing and executing a new strategy is true?
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Like crafting strategy, executing strategy is a job for a company's whole management team—not just a few seniormanagers.15.Ultimate responsibility for seeing that a strategy is executed successfully primarily falls upon the shoulders of: A. a company's chief executive officer, its chief operating officer, and the heads of major units (business divisions, functional departments, and key operating units).B. first-line supervisors who have the day-to-day responsibility of seeing that key value chain activities are done properly.C. the company's board of directors because board members are the final authority in overseeing and conducting daily operations.D. a company's whole management team—each manager is responsible for attending to what needs to be done
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