Which of the following statements about putting together a capable top management team is FALSE?
- It helps enormously when a company' top management team has several people who are particularly good change agents true believers who champion change, know h ow to trigger change and keep change initiatives moving along, and love every second of the process.
- The task of implementing challenging strategic initiatives must be assigned to executives who have the skills and talents to handle them and who can be counted on to turn their decisions and actions into results that meet or beat the established performance targets.
- Weak executives are serious impediments to getting optimal results because they are unable to differentiate between ideas and approaches that have merit and those that are misguided --the caliber of work done under their supervision suffers.
- Putting together a talented management team with the right mix of experiences, skills, and abilities to get things done is of the first steps to take in launching the strategy execution process.
- When a company's existing management team is not up the task of figuring out what needs to be done and speeding the implementation process to a successful conclusion, the company's management team should always be revamped and strengthened by convincing weak executives to take early retirement ans then promoting qualified people from within to take their place.