Corporate strategy: Leveraging resources to extend advantage 1. Diversification enables a firm to secure more attractive terrain, to access resources not otherwise available, and to share activities on a potentially economical basis. When managers within a firm share activities to achieve related diversification, they must also compromise on some issues in order to make the sharing successful. What issues, in particular, appear to be the basis for making sharing successful in a related diversified firm? How can these same issues cause a potentially successful strategy to slip?