【单选题】

Decisions, decisions ...

Poor decisions are commonplace. In fact, they are often institutionalised In the workplace, poor decisions (21) good ones in many situations. While management consultants (22) companies on many aspects of running a business, basic decision-making is often (23) out of the equation. Professor Larry Phillips, who teaches at the London School ofEconomics, says: ’Because we make decisions all the time, it is (24) that we know how to do it.’ It is a skill which is supposed to come (25) but many of us would fare better with coaching.
Psychologist Rob Yeung of consultancy Kiddy & Partners says millions of pounds are lost in business because the wrong people are hireD、’Although businesses may be quite good at (26) the terrible candidates from the mediocre ones, they aren’t very good at (27) those who are just good from those who are excellent.’
And many businesses have procedures that repress good decisions. Phillips says: ’One of the most commonplace problems is that people are held to (28) without the requisite responsibility to meet that authority .That creates tremendous anxiety.’ For instance, you will see manufacturing departments which are (29) by the sales income they achieve - but the sales price is set by someone else. Managers will often be blamed by their bosses for a downturn in commercial activity when the true culprit is market conditions. ’There is a failure to understand variability,’ says Phillips, who bemoans the (30) tendency to judge companies by their last quarter’s results alone.
A、overestimateB、exaggerate C、outnumber D、supersede