Gracie, Joanna, Eli, and Sam Have Been Working on a Project

Gracie, Joanna, Eli, and Sam have been working on a project anticipated to take three or four months. After five weeks, Gracie feels that the project is lagging, so she takes the initiative to draw up a schedule for the remaining time with milestones and duties assigned to each team member. She calls a meeting to go over her new schedule with the team but it does not go well. Members argue with her over trivial details and resist any suggestions she makes. After the meeting, Gracie asks Eli if he noticed any problems. Eli cautiously explains that the group has so far made all of its decisions by consensus and that it seemed inappropriate for Gracie to suddenly take on a leadership role and start assigning tasks and deadlines. He thinks the rest of the team resents the presumption. Clearly, Gracie's well-meaning attempt to move things along has resulted in some confusion. How could this have been avoided?

A) The team could have started by making a team charter that clearly laid out roles and responsibilities at the outset.
B) Gracie should have taken on the leadership of the group more assertively to begin with so that there was no doubt about who the team leader was.
C) Gracie should not have taken it upon herself to create a plan at all since this made her teammates feel inadequate.
D) Gracie should have been more sensitive to her team's preference not to have a leader.
E) The team should have set out the milestones long before Gracie needed to take it upon herself to figure them out.