Chapter 5 Discussion Questions

Strategy Formation

Logical Incrementalism: Managing Strategy formation by Quinn & Voyer
  1. Can "formal planning practices actually institutionalize incrementalism?"
  2. How Effective and important is the manipulation of symbols?

 

Crafting Strategies: by Mintzberg
  1. What is you opinion on Mintzberg’s statement, "The crafting image better captures the process by which effective strategies come to be."
  2. What is you opinion on Mintzberg’s assertion that deliberate strategy tends to preclude learning?

 

The Honda Effect: by Pascale
  1. Do you agree with Pascale’s discussion of the word strategy in the first tow paragraphs of the reading?
  2. What do you think of Pascale’s notion of "big brains" and "little brains?"

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