Shifting focus from specific issues to more general ones may help strategists gain commitment and achieve desired results

Community apartment projects and condominiums come within the subdivision provisions of the California Real Estate Law when they contain how many units:

A: One or more; B: Five or more; C: Three or more; D: Two or more.

The president of a consulting firm wants to minimize the total number of hours it will take to complete four projects for a new client

Accordingly, she has estimated the time it should take for each of her top consultants—Charlie, Gerald, Johnny, and Rick—to complete any of the four projects, as follows: Project Hours Consultant A B C D Charlie 13 16 11 18 Gerald 13 15 10 12 Johnny 15 11 20 15 Rick 17 17 12 22 (a) What is the total number of hours required by the following arbitrary assignment? Charlie?B; Gerald?A; Johnny?D; Rick?C (b) What is the optimal assignment of consultants to projects? (Use the assignment method.) (c) For the optimal schedule, what is the total number of hours it will take these consultants to complete these projects?