The story, then, is that the demarcating characteristic of the modern firm—what sets strategizing’s true nature—is not the private sector’s politics, nor the development of bureaucracy and rational administration, nor the firm’s ability to absorb technology to enhance productivity and control, nor more scientific understanding of the market’s demands, but the entrepreneur’s ability to draw skilled, independent, free-thinking people into aligning their imaginative capacity with her/his freely chosen and then delegated uncertainties.
