Leadership depends as much on

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Stimulus

Leadership depends as much on making one’s followers aware of their own importance as it does on conveying a vivid image of a collective goal. Only if they are convinced both that their efforts are necessary for the accomplishment of this goal, actually achieve it, will people follow a leader.

What this question is testing

Must be False

Your task

Break the argument into its conclusion and evidence, then do exactly what the question stem asks with that structure.

Common trap

Answers that sound relevant to the topic but don't connect to the argument's actual reasoning.

Winning move

Predict what a right answer must do, then test each choice against the conclusion-evidence gap.

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The question

18.

If all of the statements above are true, then which one of the following

Answer choices

Compatible4% picked this
Some leaders who convince their followers of the necessity of their efforts in achieving a goal fail, nevertheless, to lead them to
This doesn't contradict anything. To contradict this, we would have need to have read that "any time the followers are convinced of the necessity of their efforts, the goal is always attained", and we never heard that.
4%
Compatible4% picked this
One who succeeds in conveying to one’s followers the relationship between their efforts and the attainment of a collective goal succeeds in
This is very consistent with the passage. To contradict this, we would have needed to read that "whenever you successfully convey to followers how their efforts relate to attaining a collective goal, you fail to actually attain that goal." We never read that.
4%
Compatible8% picked this
Only if one is a leader must one convince people of the necessity of their efforts for the
To contradict this, we would need to know that someone besides leaders must convince people of the necessity of their efforts for the attainment of a collective goal. The passage only talked about leaders, so we have no means of saying, "Not true! This non-leader also needs to convince people of the necessity of their efforts."
8%
Compatible9% picked this
Sometimes people succeed in achieving a collective goal without ever having been convinced that by trying to do
To contradict this, we would need to have heard that "People succeed only if they've been convinced that by trying they will succeed". We never heard that.
9%
Correct74% picked this
Sometimes people who remain unsure of whether their efforts are needed for the attainment of a collective goal
Why this is right
This contradicts the conditional in the second sentence. It presents a situation where people are not convinced that their efforts are necessary for the attainment of a collective goal, but are still following a leader. The final sentence said that people only follow a leader if they are convinced.
Skill tested: Must be False · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.
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