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When potentially disruptive change appears on the horizon, managers approach should be to assemble the capabilities to (i) ______________ that change before it affects the mainstream business. The (ii) ______________ to run two businesses, one with processes attuned to the existing business model and another geared toward the new model. While apparently onerous, this parallel operation is far less dangerous than either (iii) ______________ innovation irrevocably or remaining committed to tried-and-true methods that are threatened with obsolescence.
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The writer's expression of _____________ sentiments in fluid, vigorous prose is a strange blending of the high and the low—like an opera performed by sloppily dressed, unkempt musicians.
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Advertising's role in popular music culture has been redefined: instead of a last resort for the creation and distribution of popular music, advertising now functions as a ___________ of music that might otherwise go unheard.
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Because human emotions are behavioral complexes, they presumably took a very long time to develop. Therefore, a complete lack of any (i) _____________ human emotions in ancestral species is (ii) _____________.
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When in 1980 the father and son pair of Louis and Walter Alvarez and their colleagues linked the end Cretaceoure extinction to a catastrophic extraterrestrial impact, they were met with skepticism by most paleontologists, which was (i) _____________ given that geological training since the mid-1800s had emphasized the primacy of (ii) _____________.
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Among chess aficionados, there have been many doomsday scenarios about people (i) _____________ the game as a result of the superiority of computer chess programs over human players. Others have replied to this with variations on the theme of how we still hold footraces despite cars going much faster, but this analogy is (ii) _____________ since cars do not help humans run faster while chess computers undoubtedly have an effect on the (iii) _____________ of human chess.
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Researchers concluded that although the success of pearl millet crops in the region varied with seasonal climatic conditions, cultivation remains ____________ because of pearl millet's predisposition to perform under stressful growing conditions, including drought.
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While early biographies of Florence Nightingale tended to be quite _____________, Lytton Strachey's irreverent 1918 essay about her ushered in a new era, making it acceptable, even fashionable, to criticize her.
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This novel is not great literature; there are too many characters, too many subplots, and no clearly defined protagonist, making for _____________story.
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The general claim that artists are the preeminent specialists in (i) ______________ is refuted by the obvious fact that the great mathematical and scientific discoveries of the past and present have been as much the result of (ii) ______________ thinking as have great (iii) ______________ discoveries.
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According to the passage, reluctance to abandon the logarithmic-spiral model of shell formation arises from the fact that
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The author suggests which of the following about motivated reasoning?
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Which of the following is an assumption on which the editorial's argument depends?
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Regarding the "doubt" mentioned in the passage, the author would probably agree that it
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It can be inferred from the passage that if a newly formed chondrule were to cool slowly, then
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Duprat would most likely agree that certain nineteenth-century French female societies
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The passage is primarily concerned with
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It can be inferred that the author of the passage mentions Fern's “sharply humorous social criticism'" primarily in order to
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