What are managerial activists?
Managerial activists involve four basic activities- planning and decision-making, organizing, leading, and controlling. Now I discuss them below: Planning and Decision Making: Determining Courses of Action In its simplest form, planning means setting an organization's goals and deciding how best to achieve them. Decision-making, a part of the planning process, involves selecting a course of action from a set of alternatives. Planning and decision-making help maintain managerial effectiveness by serving as guides for future activities. In other words, the organization's goals and plans clearly help managers know how to allocate their time and resources. When Alan Mulally took over the ailing Ford Motor Company a few years ago, he walked into a business that had low cash reserves, an unpopular product line, a confusing strategy, and a culture that was so resistant to change that one insider said it was "calcified." His first agenda was to set performance goals