Managers who often depend on their personal views and experiences to solve problems and make business decisions run the risk of:

• A. alienating employees who want to contribute to the decision-making process.
• B. undermining the goals of the company by becoming too independent.
• C. taking on more responsibility than is necessary in a given business venture.
• D. making assumptions about the business and economic environment that are untrue, thereby threatening the profitability of the company.
• E. threatening the profitability of the company by encouraging centralized decisionmaking processes.