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Leadership is hardly a new area of research, of course. For years, academics have debated whether leaders are born or made, whet

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问题     Leadership is hardly a new area of research, of course. For years, academics have debated whether leaders are born or made, whether a person who lacks charisma(capacity to inspire devotion and enthusiasm)can become a leader, and what makes leaders fail. Warren G. Bennis, possibly the world’s foremost expert on leading, has, together with his co-author, written two best-sellers on the topic. Generally, researchers have found that you can’t explain leadership by way of intelligence, birth order, family wealth or stability, level of education, race, or sex. From one leader to the next, there’s enormous variance in every one of those factors.
    The authors’ research led to a new and telling discovery: that every leader, regardless of age, had undergone at least one intense, transformational experience — what the authors call a "crucible"(severe test). These events can either make you or break you. For emerging leaders, they do more making than breaking, providing key lessons to help a person move ahead confidently.
    If a crucible helps a person to become leader, there are four essential qualities that allow someone to remain one according to the authors. They are: an "adaptive capacity" that lets people not only survive inevitable setbacks heartbreaks, and difficulties but also learn from them; an ability to engage others through shared meaning or a common vision; a distinctive and compelling voice that communicates one’s conviction and desire to do the right thing and sense of integrity that allows a leader to distinguish between good and evil.
    That sounds obvious enough to be commonplace, until you look at some recent failures that show how valid these dictums(formal statements of opinion)are. The authors believe that former Coca-Cola Co. Chairman M. Douglas Ivester lasted just 28 months because "his grasp of context was sorrowful. "Among other things, Ivester degraded Coke’s highest-ranking African-American even as the company was losing a $200 million class action brought by black employees. Procter&Gamble Co. ex-CEO Durk Jager lost his job because he failed to communicate the urgent need for the sweeping changes he was making.
    It’s striking, too, that the authors found their geezers(whose formative period, as the authors define them was 1945 to 1954, and who were shaped by World War II)sharing what they believed to be a critical trait — the sense of possibility and wonder more often associated with childhood. "Unlike those defeated by time and age, our geezers have remained much like our geeks(who came of age between 1991 and 2000, and grew up "virtual, visual and digital")—open, willing to take risk, hungry for knowledge and experience, courageous, and eager to see what the new day brings", the authors write.
According to Bennis, the trait shared by leaders consists of______.
选项 A、top levels of intelligence and education and devotion
B、remarkable ability to encourage people with loyalty and hope
C、striking qualities of going through serious trials and sufferings
D、strong personalities that arouse admiration and confidence
答案C
解析 细节题。第二段“The authors’research led to a new and telling discovery：thatevery leader，regardless of age，had undergone at least one intense，transformat ionalexperience—what the authors call a“crucible”(severe test)．”研究有新发现，不论领导年龄大小，他们必定经历过至少一场严重的事件，从中受到考验。这符合C项(具备渡过难关的品质)。
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