Paragraph Completion - Expert Teams

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Complete the paragraph given below with the most appropriate option.

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. A.

    The result, however, is disastrous

  2. B.

    The result is mediocrity.

  3. C.

    The result is creation of experts who then become elitist.

  4. D.

    Naturally, they drive innovations.

Answer

B

Explanation

When organizations choose people who 'get along nicely' instead of experts, the outcome is safe, average performance—i.e., 'mediocrity'.

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