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Strategic Management_Article Review 4

Strategic Management_Article Review 4

Q Instructions: Book/Article Reviews Another major element of your grade consists of book/article reviews. There are FOUR book/article reviews at 50 points each. These are formal writing assignments. Proper use of APA citations and style is mandatory. Here is the format for book/article reviews. Four to five pages not including the cover page is about the right length. (1) Introduction What is the purpose of the book/article? Why was it written? (2) Analysis What are the major points of the book/article? If the article includes a case, what are the major concepts presented? (3) Conclusion What are your take a ways? How can these concepts help prepare you to become a better manager? Do you see any application of these concepts to your current class project? Explain in detail. (4) Resource listing in APA style.

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One can be placed on the competitive map by a brilliant strategy. However, one is kept there with the help of solid execution only. Struggle is experienced by majority of the companies with implementation. The reason being they have a tendency to over depend on structural alterations like reorganization in order for their strategy to be executed. Short-term gains are only produced by the structural change even though place is there for structural change in the execution. For instance, layers of management were decreased by one company as a portion of the strategy so that disappointing performance can be addressed. Costs initially plummeted but there is creeping back of the layers soon.