{"id":430317,"date":"2018-03-13T13:49:25","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T13:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essaypaper.org\/discussion-questions-essay\/"},"modified":"2018-10-24T09:18:53","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T09:18:53","slug":"discussion-questions-essay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/discussion-questions-essay\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussion Questions &#124; ESSAY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>Discussion Questions<\/p>\n<p>Chapter 5<\/p>\n<p>1. What are planning, strategy, and strategic management, and why are they important to me as a manager?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>2. What are mission and vision statements, and what are three types of planning?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>3. What are the three types of goals, and what are different kinds of plans?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>4. What are SMART goals and MBO and how can they be implemented?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>5. How does the planning\/control cycle help keep a manager\u2019s plans headed in the right direction?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chapter 6<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>1. What is strategic positioning, and what are the three principles that underlie it?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>2. What\u2019s the five-step recipe for the strategic-management process?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>3. What are the characteristics of good mission and vision statements?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>4. What tools can help me describe where the organization stands from a competitive point of view?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>5. How can three techniques\u2014Porter\u2019s four competitive strategies, diversification and synergy, and the BCG matrix\u2014help me formulate strategy?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>6. How does effective execution help managers during the strategic-management process?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discussion Questions Chapter 5 1. What are planning, strategy, and strategic management, and why are they important to me as a manager? \u00a0 2. What are mission and vision statements, and what are three types of planning? \u00a0 3. What <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/discussion-questions-essay\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}