An individual is known to their coworkers for keeping promises. The individual promised that they would attend a scheduled project meeting or send a representative from their team. The meeting organizer just received an email from the individual that they would not be able to attend the scheduled project meeting.
a. Which one of the following conclusions is best supported by the passage above?
1. The organizer is expecting a representative from the individual's team to attend the meeting.
2. No one from the individual's team will be attending the meeting.
3. Coworkers believe that the individual never breaks promises.

Is exploiting a distinctive competence or improving efficiency for competitive advantage. (a) cooptation (b) coalition (c) competitive intelligence (d) competitive aggression (e) smoothing

Ancho corp. is an automobile company whose core competency lies in manufacturing petrol- and diesel- based cars. the company realizes that more of its potential customers are switching to electric cars. the r& d department of the company acquires competencies in developing electric cars and launches its first hybrid car, which uses both gas and electricity. in this scenario, ancho is primarilya. leveraging new core competencies to improve current market position. b. redeploying existing core competencies to compete in future markets. c. unlearning existing core competencies to create and compete in markets of the future. d. building new core competencies to protect and extend current market position

Advertisers are usually very conscious of their audience. choose an issue of a popular magazine such as time, sports illustrated, vanity fair, rolling stone, or the like. from that issue select three advertisements to analyze. try to determine the audience being appealed to in each advertisement and analyze the appeals used to persuade buyers. how might the appeals differ is the ads were designed to persuade a different audience.