Managerial Role in Implementation All managers understand the larger system, the connection between their roles and the functioning of that system, as well as the interdependence between the various roles that comprise the system. Lower-level managers need only know his or her own role well and can be expected to defend only his or her own turf. Strategy Making Sees strategy and change as inescapably linked and assumes that finding new strategic options and implementing them successfully is harder and more important than evaluating them.