ext and internal messages (rationale for decisions) through goal setting and planning, managers learn what the organization is trying to accomplish. they can make decisions to ensure that internal policies, roles, performance, structure, product, and expenditures will be made in accordance with desires outcomes.
Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Rubicon. The Rubicon is a shallow river in northeastern Italy, about 80 kilometres long, running from the Apennine Mountains to the Adriatic Sea through the southern Emilia-Romagna region, between the towns of Rimini and Cesena. The Latin word rubico comes from the adjective rubeus, meaning red.
In 49 B.C., Caesar and one of his legions crossed the Rubicon, a river on the border between Italy from Cisalpine Gaul. Caesarâs invasion of Italy ignited a civil war from which he emerged as dictator of Rome for life in 45 B.C.