A CEO Made a Lot of Mistakes in Assessing the Market

question 75

Multiple Choice

A CEO made a lot of mistakes in assessing the market and the competitive conditions and improperly redesigning the organization into numerous business units.Such errors led to significant performance declines.According to the text,this example illustrates the ________ perspective of leadership.

• A) external control
• B) romantic
• C) internal mechanism
• D) operational

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Definitions:

Scarce Resources

Limited natural, human, and capital resources that cannot satisfy all wants and needs.

Consumer Preferences

Describes the subjective tastes and preferences of individual consumers, influencing their purchasing decisions.

Marginal Benefit

The additional satisfaction or value a consumer gains from consuming one more unit of a good or service.

Purely Competitive

Describes a market structure where many small firms compete against each other, with no single entity able to control the market price.