Foundations Of Strategy 1st Edition By Robert M.Grant – Test Bank

Chapter 10

Current Trends in Strategic Management

1. The ‘Great Recession’ occurred in the first half of the twentieth century.

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2. Global stock markets boomed in the 1990s but did not hit peak 2000 levels again for a considerable time (more than ten years).

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3. Despite economic and financial troubles, politically and socially the first decade of the twenty-first century started smoothly.

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4. Many commentators predict that China will overtake the USA as the world’s largest economy by 2025.

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5. A lack of social legitimacy could bring down yet more investment or commercial banks.

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6. The Enron, Worldcom and Madoff scandals all featured the agency problem of asymmetric information: Managers had created financial losses and then lied to the Principals (shareholders) about it.

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7. The current macro-environment is very sensitive to small movements because of the highly unstable macroeconomic balance.

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8. The global financial crisis showed that the Boards of most financial institutions understood the risks they were running, but did not tell shareholders the extent of these risks until too late.

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9. In the 1990s and 2000s regulation and restrictions on all kinds of banks were loosened in part because politicians wanted the wealth and jobs created by the financial sector itself.

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10. The new leaders value emotional intelligence because they can use it to motivate employees emotionally as well as intellectually.

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11. The new leaders are fearless, hard-charging men and women who understand their businesses deeply and accept full responsibility.

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12. Empirical research into leadership tends to conclude that successful leaders have many different characteristics and approaches to dealing with people.

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