Strategy Process Content Context 4th Edition By De Wit Bob – Test Bank

Chapter 11: Strategic Leadership

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1. Board members can play important strategic roles in organizations such as providing advice to managers with regard to strategies and strategic direction.

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2. “Caretaker” boards participate actively in organizational decisions.

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3. The traditional view of leaders in organizations is that they set direction, make the important decisions, and rally the followers.

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4. Firms that don’t have a written mission statement may still have a strategic direction.

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5. Broad environmental forces influence strategic direction.

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6. A mission statement may contain a statement of vision.

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7. The traditional view of the leader as an authoritarian figure making all important decisions is still appropriate for strategy.

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8. The leadership traits associated with the notion of a learning organization: designer, teacher and steward, have no role within strategy.

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9. Organizational mission statements typically do not include statements about profitability and earning above-average returns.

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10. Organizational vision and mission statements require deep, critical, and reflective thinking to form them.

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