The Leadership Challenges That Top Executives Face in Making Corrective

question 79

Multiple Choice

The leadership challenges that top executives face in making corrective adjustments when things are not going well include

• A)knowing when to replace poorly performing subordinates and when to do a better job of coaching them to do the right things.
• B)being able to discern whether to promote better achievement of strategic performance targets or whether to promote better achievement of financial performance targets.
• C)deciding when adjustments are needed and what adjustments to make.
• D)having the analytic skills to separate the problems due to a bad strategy from the problems due to bad strategy execution.
• E)deciding whether the company would be better off making adjustments that curtail the achievement of strategic objectives or that curtail the achievement of financial objectives.

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Definitions:

Caspi

Refers to Avshalom Caspi, a psychologist known for his work in life-course developmental psychology, notably linking genetic factors to behavioral outcomes.

Plasticity Principle

The concept that the brain is capable of changing and adapting in response to experience, learning, or injury, throughout a person's life.

Person-Environment Transactions

The dynamic and reciprocal interaction between an individual and their environment, shaping and being shaped by it.

Maladaptive

Behaviors or ways of thinking that may be counterproductive or hinder a person’s ability to effectively cope with their surroundings or circumstances.