Suppose that an executive who was an effective leader in organization X took a position with organization Y and was ineffective there.Which of the following,if true,would support Bonnie Haffior's likely explanation for the difference in performance?
A) The skills required in organization Y required the same kinds of leadership behavior.
B) The executive lacked the qualities that lead to success in all leadership contexts.
C) The executive's actions at organization X were significantly different from those the executive took at organization Y.
D) Many of the people who held the executive's position have been even less effective.
E) After leaving organization Y, the executive took a position at organization Z, where she was even more effective than she was at organization X.

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C)Bonnie Haffior believes that the key to effective leadership is to identify the things that good leaders do. If the executive had done the same things but got different results then that would suggest that different behavior would be required, which would weaken Bonnie's argument. But if Choice C were true, then the different results might be explained by different behavior, which would strengthen Bonnie's position. Choice A would weaken Bonnie's argument. Choice B sounds like something Tim Raitt would say. Choice D suggests that the executive might not have been so bad, but doesn't help explain why she wasn't effective. Choice E, if anything, supports a contingency approach.

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