Leadership plan

Instructions: Indicate your strength of agreement with each of the following statements: SD = strongly disagree, D = disagree, N = neutral, A = agree, SA = strongly agree. SD D N A SA

1. Every action I take on my job should add value for our customers, our clients, or the public.

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2. Let company leadership ponder the future; I have my own job to get done.

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3. Strategic thinking is fluff. Somebody down the organization has to get the job done.

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4. A company cannot become great without an exciting vision.

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5. What I do on the job each day can affect the performance of the company many years into the future.

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6.It is rather pointless to develop skills or acquire knowledge that cannot help you on the job within the next month.

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7. Strategic planning should be carried out in a separate department rather than involve people throughout the organization.

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8. It makes good sense for top management to frequently ask itself the question, “What business are we really in?”

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9. If a company does an outstanding job of satisfying its customers, there is little need to worry about changing its mix of goods or services.

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10. Organizational visions remind me of pipe dreams and hallucinations.

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11. I like the idea of an organization sending a group of managers and professionals to an off-site strategy development session every couple of years or so.

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12. Strategy formulation is a bureaucratic exercise that usually gets the organization nowhere.

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