9Build strategies - which typically require leaders with strong personal visions for a firm's future, rather than the negotiated compromise of the team-based decision - may be most closely adhered to when implemented in the context of a clear strategic vision of an individual leader, rather than through the practice of decision-sharing.

The passage cites all of the following as differences between firms using build strategies and firms using harvest strategies EXCEPT

A) their willingness to sacrifice short-term profits in order to build market share

B) their willingness to sacrifice building market share in order to increase short-term profitability

C) the number of strategic options available to their managers

D) the relative importance they assign to maximizing cash-flow

E) how likely they are to employ decision-sharing in developing strategic plans