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QUESTION

The product director and the executive are most likely to disagree about which of the following questions?

A) Does the manager need to have any technical skills?
B) In choosing the best manager for the Prensabi project, are conceptual skills more important than human skills?
C) Would it be a mistake to choose the manager with the strongest technical skills if that manager has weak conceptual skills?
D) Is it ever a good idea to require strong conceptual skills when choosing a manager for a project?
E) Is it likely that the requirements of the Prensabi project will change after the project is launched?

ANSWER

Answer: C
Explanation: C) The product director wants to choose the manager with the strongest technical skills, and that’s it. The executive says that some skills are required, and so they would agree on Choice A. But the executive wants to require strong conceptual skills, and so the two would disagree about Choice C. Choices B and E: Neither speaker mentions human skills (Choice B) or the possibility of changing requirements (Choice E). Choice D is tempting because the executive definitely would say “yes.” But the product director doesn’t claim that conceptual skills should never be required. So we don’t know how the product director would respond to the question in Choice D.