Question. There are reasons for firms to keep strategies hidden from all but top-level executives. Strategists must decide for themselves what is best for their firms. The utopian society is an imaginary society which only exists in books and in the minds of the people. However, the society that we live in today is far from the Utopian to say the least where more of Jungle rule plays in it than the just and fair play. The business world is an integral part of the society and so it too is subjected to the same Jungle rules. The law of the jungle can be defined as a system or mode of action in which the strongest survive presumably as animals in nature or as human beings whose activities are not regulated by civil laws and or ethics of civilization. Now to find an answer to the question of to why many firms to keep their important strategies hidden from all but top-level executives, the simple and quick answer would be to say the entire spectrum of the manpower in that firm are not on equal footing educationally and otherwise. Therefore the grasping power, as well as the interpretation of it, can be varied and eventually the application part will be far from the originally devised idea. Everything gets mutated over the years eventually but if that is to happen at the start of some strategic move due to misinterpretation, can bring in more harm and that is one of the basic reasons why important policy decisions are hidden from the rank and file at the beginning of the process.
