Amajor department store chain has a strict policy of banning photographs or videos of its sales floor or back-room operations. it also does not allow academics to conduct studies of it for publication in research journals. in fact, some of its own top managers refer to the management's policies on secrecy as "verging on paranoid." these policies indicate that the top management of the firm believes the organization's core competencies are:

Which of the following is a consequence of the new “24-hour news cycle

Voters commonly condemn politicians for being insincere, but politicians often must disguise their true feelings when they make public statements. if they expressed their honest views—about, say, their party's policies—then achieving politically necessary compromises would be much more difficult. clearly, the very insincerity that people decry shows that our government is functioning well. which of the following, if true, most seriously undermines this reasoning? (a) achieving political compromises is not all that is necessary for the proper functioning of a government. (b) some political compromises are not in the best long-term interest of the government. (c) voters often judge politicians by criteria other than the sincerity with which they express their views. (d) a political party's policies could turn out to be detrimental to the functioning of a government. (e) some of the public statements made by politicians about their party's policies could in fact be sincere.

When the constitutional convention laid out the framework for the executive branch they wanted