To be effective, firms need to
A. pursue visions that are exclusively financial and not aspirational.
B. isolate top managers from the organizational values.
C. increase their strategic flexibility by developing product-oriented vision statements.
D. back up their visions with strategic commitments that are costly and difficult to reverse.
Answer: D
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