How can objectives be communicated from senior management

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1. ‘Nothing chastens the planner more than the knowledge that s/he will have to carry out the plan .' (General Gavin, quoted by George Day) Discuss this comment in the context of the implementation process.

2. What are the implications of bounded rationality and minimum intervention in developing the strategic process?

3. How can objectives and tasks be communicated from senior management while at the same time motivating those who have to implement them?

4. ‘If top management devotes more effort to assessing the strategic feasibility of projects in its allocational role than it does to the task of multiplying resource effectiveness, its value added will be modest indeed.' (Gary Hamel and C K Prahalad) Discuss.

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