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.
Crossing the Rubicon. Posted by ESC on January 08, 2001. In Reply to: Crossing the Rubicon? posted by marcus on January 08, 2001: : what is the meaning and derivation of this phrase?: : When Julius Gaius Caesar headed out from Gaul in or about 40 BC to take over Rome, he exclaimed, The die is cast! You Latin scholars know what I mean. Crossing the Rubicon is crossing the point of no return. I might add he went on to an illustrious career. Yep, right you are. It says here: RUBICON - Cross the rubicon: (ru bi kan) a boundary or limit, which when crossed commits a person irrevocably.