Managers who can easily become distracted by fighting the everyday fires of business and, in the process, ignore or postpone planning succumb to what is sometimes called

A. "Parkinson’s law of planning."
B. the "Peter principle."
C. the "tyranny of the urgent."
D. "Murphy’s law of strategic action."


Answer: C

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