CAT/1995

Question . 171

Direction for Questions: Arrange sentences A, B, C, and D between sentences 1 and 6 to form a logical sequence of the six sentences.

 

1. Managers especially the successful ones, should guard against ascribing to themselves qualities and attributes which they may not have, or may have in a measure much less than what they think they have.

A. External appearances can be deceptive.

B. To initiate action, without being in possession of full facts, can lead to disastrous results.

C. Also, one should develop confidants who can be used as sounding boards, in order to check one’s own thinking against that of others.

D. It is also useful to be open to receive feedback about oneself so that a real understanding of the ‘self’ exists.

6. A false perception can be likened to wearing coloured glasses - all facts get tainted by colour of the glass and the mind interprets them wrongly to fit into the perception.