What are "strategic-level managers" ?
1."Organizations, like connectionist networks, have outputs. Strategic-level managers formulate the organization’s interpretation. When one speaks of organizational interpretation one really means interpretation by a relatively small group at the top of the organizational hierarchy…. Upper managers bring together and interpret information for the system as a whole".
"Organizational information processing, as in connectionist nets, is feed-forward. Many participants may play some part in scanning or data processing, but the point at which information converges and is interpreted for organizational level action is assumed to be at the top manager level.
… Below the vice presidential level, participants are not informed on issues pertaining to the organization as a whole.
"The emergent organization: communication as its site and surface", by James R. Taylor, Elizabeth J. Van Every.
2/So Taylor and Van Every say that "Below the vice presidential level, participants are not informed on issues pertaining to the organization as a whole"
There are always scenarios like this in large organisations 
Sounds like my job. Way ! over paid for decisions on stuff I know nothing about and with no idea of the consequences of those decisions.
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The second premise is usually the case but if you want to break that monopoly look at this as well as they have – http://synchronicitywins.blogspot.com/
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People who are paid to find so-called strategies for the company: those strategies of course mean that someone or several or many will be deprived of something soon.
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There are always scenarios like this in large organisations
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Froggie