Multiple choice

Direction for question: The following question has a paragraph from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the given options, choose the one that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.

Most firms consider expert individuals to be too elitist, temperamental, egocentric, and difficult to work with. Force such people to collaborate on a high - stakes project and they just might come to fisticuffs. Even the very notion of managing such a group seems unimaginable. So most organizations fall into default mode, setting up project teams of people who get along nicely _________________.

  1. The result, however, is disastrous.

  2. The result is mediocrity.

  3. The result is creation of experts who then become elitists.

  4. Naturally, they drive innovations.
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B Correct answer
Explanation

The right answer is (2). 

When the organizations compromised by setting up project teams not of the best brains but of people who get along nicely, the result has to be mediocrity.  No other answer logically fits in.

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