Multiple Choice
The CEO of a large organization once commented how,earlier in his career,he rented expensive artwork and displayed it in his office.'Top management would drop by my office and immediately get a sense that I was sophisticated and professional',the CEO explained.'I believe the artwork helped me get promoted.' The artwork helped this executive gain power:
A) because he and his artwork were not substitutable.
B) by increasing his coercive power in the organization.
C) by making everyone else's sources of power less relevant to the organization.
D) through visibility.
E) by decreasing his centrality in the organization.
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