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Last week I had lunch with a man who used to be one of the most senior bankers in the UK. The trouble with business today, he co
Last week I had lunch with a man who used to be one of the most senior bankers in the UK. The trouble with business today, he co
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Last week I had lunch with a man who used to be one of the most senior bankers in the UK. The trouble with business today, he complained over coffee, was that there was no common sense any more. Such sense, he insisted, had always been uncommon—but now was extinct.
The reason common sense is squashed in this way is insecurity. Most people in business live in fear of being found out, and sounding clever seems a safer bet than being understood. As more people try to sound clever, the standard gets tougher, and before long formerly sensible people start talking absolute rot. Recently I read an interview with a senior manager at Amazon in which he explained the secret to his hiring success: "Your bar raiser should also run the debrief after every hiring loop."
The next enemy of common sense is self-importance, which not only makes business people lose the plot at work, but at home too. On LinkedIn the other day a former chief operating officer of eBay boasted that he was so busy he bought a house without even looking at it properly, and that his wife once delivered clean underwear to the office after he had worked all night. A five-year old could have told him that this is no way to live, and that if you are caught without clean underpants, or end up buying a house having hardly looked at it, it is better to keep quiet.
Human weakness is not the only destroyer of common sense; the corporate machine does so equally powerfully. Departments such as HR and PR routinely eliminate any lurking pools of rationality, while interdepartmental rivalries, budgets and regulations of any kind all tend to ensure that few things are ever done sensibly.
The only way of safeguarding common sense in business is to grow your own, and become an entrepreneur. A couple of months ago I helped judge a competition for new businesses. One of the winners made charging points for electric cars; another had developed a sort of Netflix for magazines. Both were good ideas, with good business plans and founders who spoke lucidly about what they were doing. I don’t know if either will succeed. But I do know that if they do, their good sense will be under attack.
It can be learned from Paragraph 4 that______.
选项
A、human weakness is the only factor to destroy common sense
B、the corporate machine is also an important destroyer of commom sense
C、HR and PR are key departments to protect rationality
D、the proper interdepartmental rivalries is good for the company
答案
B
解析
根据题干关键词定位到第四段。此题可利用选项信息回原文定位,然后进行比对。A项“人性弱点是破坏常识的唯一因素”与此段Human weakness is not the only destroyer of common sense不符。B项“企业机制也是破坏常识的一个重要因素”与the corporate machine does so equally powerfully相符,故为正确答案。C项“人力和公关是保护理性的主要部门”与Departments such as HR and PR routinely eliminate any lurking pools of ratio-nality不符。D项“适当的部门竞争对公司是好事”是对本段最后一句的过度推断,故排除。
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