Strategic Flexibility Is Achieved By

question 11

Multiple Choice

Strategic flexibility is achieved by:

• A) Managers developing a dominant plan and sticking to it.
• B) Managers responding when reality changes by activating alternate dominant plans.
• C) Ignoring feedback from the marketplace while creating new plans.
• D) Breaking the cycle of strategic planning-monitoring-responding.

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Definitions:

Electra Complex

A concept in psychoanalytic theory referring to a girl's psychosexual competition with her mother for possession of her father.

Oedipus Complex

A psychoanalytic theory that describes a child's feelings of desire for their opposite-sex parent and jealousy toward their same-sex parent.

Psychoanalytic Theory

A theory of personality organization and the dynamics of personality development that guides psychoanalysis, developed by Sigmund Freud.

Prefrontal Cortex

The front part of the frontal lobe of the brain, involved in decision making, planning, problem-solving, self-control, and moderating social behavior.