answers to 1,2,3,7,8 please
1. Choose a CEO of a prominent firm that they believe exemplifies the positive aspects of strategic leadership. What actions does this CEO take that demonstrate effective strategic leadership? What are effects of those actions on the firm's performance? 2. Select a CEO of a prominent firm that they believe does not exemplify the positive aspects of strategic leadership. What actions did this CEO take that are inconsistent with effective strategic leadership? HC have those ineffective actions affected the firm's performance? 3. What are managerial resources? What is the relationship between managerial resources and a firm's strategic competitiveness? 4. Examine some articles in the popular press and select an organization that recently went through a significant strategic change. They should collect as much information as possible about the organizatic top management team. Is there a relationship between the top management team's characteristics and tl type of change the organization experienced? If so, what are the nature and outcome of that relationshi 5. Read some articles in the popular press and identify two new CEOs, one from the internal managerial labor market and one from the external labor market. Why do they think these individuals were chosen What do they bring to the job, and what strategy do students think they will implement in their respect organizations? 6. Based on this chapter and accounts in the popular press, select a CEO who has exhibited vision. Has tt CEO's vision been realized? If so, what have its effects been? If the vision has not been realized, why not? 7. Identify a firm in which they believe strategic leaders have emphasized and developed human capital. What are the effects of this emphasis and development on the firm's performance? 8. Select an organization that has a unique organizational culture. What characteristics of that culture ma it unique? Has the culture had a significant effect on the organization's performance? If so, what is that effect? 9. Why is the strategic control exercised by a firm's strategic leaders important for long-term competitiveness? How do stratt controls differ from financial controls