ABSTRACT
Vision statements and mission statements have become virtually ubiquitous in the corporate world. That practice has spread beyond commercial firms to research organizations from as small as single technology start-ups to large national and international government-funded laboratories. The enterprise-wide approach merges smoothly into holistic management that integrates critical strategic activities and elements of business operations into a logical whole. In the Management Space, the combined efforts of the enterprise managers must put the plans formulated and promulgated by the executives into action by the entire set of employees. Management makes a substantial error when it ignores the secondary, indirect links in the network illustrated by the thin bi-directional arrows and dotted lines. The higher one rises in the hierarchy of corporate management, the more critical that understanding the political network and its potential influences becomes.
