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【单选题】"WHAT’S the difference between God and LarryEllison " asks an old software industry joke.Answer: God doesn’t think he’s LarryEllison. The boss of Oracle is hardly alone among corporate chiefs in having a reputation for being rather keen on himself. Indeed, until the bubble burst and the public turned nasty at the start of the decade, the cult of the celebrity chief executive seemed to demand bossly narcissism, as evidence that a firm was being led by an all-conquering hero.
Narcissus met a nasty end, of course.And in recent years, boss-worship has come to be seen as bad for business. In his management bestseller, "Good to Great", JimCollins argued that the truly successful bosses were not the serf-proclaimed stars who adorn the covers of Forbes and Fortune, but instead self-effacing, thoughtful, monkish sorts who lead by inspiring example.

A、statistical answer may be at hanD、For the first time, a new study, "It’sAllAbout Me", to be presented next week at the annual gathering of theAmericanAcademy of Management, offers a systematic, empirical analysis of what effect narcissistic bosses have on the firms they run. The authors,ArijitChatterjee andDonald Hambrick, of Pennsylvania State University, examined narcissism in the upper levels of 105 firms in the computer and software industries.
To do this, they had to solve a practical problem: studies of narcissism have hitherto relied on surveying individuals personally, something for which few chief executives are likely to have time or inclination. So the authors devised an index of narcissism using six publicly available indicators obtainable without the co-operation of the boss. These are: the prominence of the boss’s photo in the annual report; his prominence in company press releases; the length of his "Who’s Who" entry; the frequency of his use of the first person singular in interviews; and the ratios of his cash and non-cash compensation to those of the firm’s second-highest paid executive.
Narcissism naturally drives people to seek positions of power and influence, and because great self-esteem helps your professional advance, say the authors, chief executives will tend on average to be more narcissistic than the general population. How does that affect a firm MessrsChatterjee and Hambrick found that highly narcissistic bosses tended to make bigger changes in the use of important resources, such as research and development, or in spending and leverage; they carried out more and bigger mergers and acquisitions ; and their results were both more extreme (more big wins or big losses) and more transient than those of firms run by their humbler peers. For shareholders, that could be good or baD、
Although (oddly) the authors are keeping their narcissism ranking secret, they have revealed that MrEllison did not come top.Alas for him, that may be because the study limited itself to people who became the boss after 1991--well after he took the helm. In every respect MrEllison seems to be the classic narcissistic boss, claims MrChatterjee. There is life in the old joke yet.
We can infer from the passage that
[A] the results of the new study has already been publicizeD、
[B] the researchers think Mr.Ellison is more classic than narcissistiC、
[C] the joke about Mr.Ellison is actually adapted from real life.
[D] the ranking might be different if the survey focused on an earlier perioD、
网考网参考答案：D
网考网解析：
[解题思路] 推理题。文章最后一段首句说：尽管研究人员把自恋排名保密，但是他们透露Ellison先生并不是排在首位，而这可能是由于这一研究仅限于1991年之后成为老板的人，而Ellison先生是在1991年之前很久就当了老板了。说明如果该研究把时间延至更早的范围内，排名就可能会不同了。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>