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  3. Ten years ago, I got a call from a reporter at a big-city daily paper. "I’m writing a story on communication skills," she said.

Ten years ago, I got a call from a reporter at a big-city daily paper. "I’m writing a story on communication skills," she said.

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问题     Ten years ago, I got a call from a reporter at a big-city daily paper. "I’m writing a story on communication skills," she said. "Are communication skills important in business?" I assumed I had misheard her question, and after she repeated it for me I still didn’t know how to respond. Are communication skills important? "Er, they are very important," I managed to squeak out. My brain said: Are breathing skills important? The reporter explained: "The people I’ve spoken with so far have been mixed on the subject."
    Ten years ago, we were trapped even deeper in the Age of Left-Brain Business. We were way into Six Sigma and Iso 9000 and spreadsheets and regulations and policies. We thought we could line-item budget our way to greatness, create shareholder value by tracking our employees’ every keystroke, and employ a dress-code policy to win in the marketplace. And lots of us believed that order and uniformity could save the world—the business world, anyway. We had to go pretty far down that path before we caught onto the limits of process, technology, and linear thinking.
    The right brain is coming back into style in the business world, and not a moment too soon. Smart salespeople say, "We’ve got compelling story that accords with our customer’s values and history." Strong leaders say, "We’re creating a context for our team members that weaves their passions into ours." Consultants get big money for providing perspective on the "user experience." That’s not a linear, analytical process. These days, we’re talking about emotion again, and context and meaning. Thank goodness we are. I was about to choke on the death-by-spreadsheet diet, and I wasn’t the only one.
    Job seekers get great jobs today by avoiding the Black Hole of Keyword-Searching and going straight to a human decision-maker to share a story that links the job seeker’s powerful history with the decisionmaker’s present pain. Leadership teams spend their off-site weekends talking about not the next 400 strategic initiatives on somebody’s list but rather a story-type road map to keep the troops philosophically on board while they take the next hill.
    The right brain’s return is coming just at the right time, when employees are sick of not only their jobs but also the cynical, hypocritical, and obsessively left-brain behaviors they see all around them in corporate life. Smart employers will grab this opportunity to lose the three-inch-thick policy manuals and enforcement mentality. There’s no leverage in those, no spark, and no aha. We’ve seen where the left-brain mentality has gotten us: to the land of spreadsheets, with PowerPoints and burned-out shells where our workforce used to be.
The author’s attitude toward the return of the right brain is ________.
选项 A、skeptical
B、welcoming
C、critical
D、indifferent
答案B
解析 最后一段作者指出右脑思维的回归恰逢时机，表达了对右脑思维回归的肯定。第三段末句作者也提到他自己快因为没完没了的电子表格而窒息，对右脑思维的回归谢天谢地。由此可见，作者对其是持肯定态度的，故B项正确。首先可以排除D项，整篇文章都在谈论左右脑两种思维经营公司的话题，由此可知作者对此问题保持着积极的关注，而非漠视。B项和C项为语义截然相反的两项，正确答案往往来自其中之一，结合上文提左脑办公时所选用的limits，death-by-spreadsheet diet和Black Hole等贬义词汇，再对比谈及右脑办公时所选用的not a moment too soon，consultants get big money等表积极语义的词汇，可知作者是偏向和支持右脑时代回归的，故选择B项，同时可排除A项。
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