Multiple choice

Directions: The passage given below is followed by four alternative summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the passage. Key in the number of the option you choose as your answer.

Most often today, the difference between a company and its competitor is the ability to execute. If your competitors are executing better than you are, they are beating you here and now, and the financial markets won’t wait to see if your elaborate strategy plays out. So, leaders who can’t execute don’t get free runs anymore. Execution is the great unaddressed issue in the business world today. Its absence is the single biggest obstacle to success and the cause of most of the disappointments that are mistakenly attributed to other causes.

  1. A proper execution of a strategy even in parts can turn the financial markets in a business’s favour.

  2. Execution has the power to offer a competitive advantage, the fact, though, remains obscured by more recognisable causes.

  3. The changed business scenario has placed new demands before the leaders of today – execution of the entire strategy.

  4. The increased importance of execution is reflected in the fact that the lack of it is widely acknowledged for a business’s failure.
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Explanation
  1. Not true. There is no guarantee that proper execution shall make financial markets favour a business. This is not what the author says.
    1. True. “Execution is the great unaddressed issue in the business world today” makes the option clear.
    2. True, however, what makes execution a determinant of success or failure is better structured in option 2.
    3. Not true. There may still be other causes to a business’s failure.

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