C is the right one E: Being heavily committed to a course of action, especially one that has worked well in the past, is likely to make an executive miss signs of incipient trouble or misinterpret them when they do appear. here we can not find a logical subject to the participle being at the beginning of the main clause. That is a big foult C: An executive (who is heavily committed to a course of action) is likely to (miss or misinterpret signs of incipient trouble when they do appear,) especially if it has worked well in the past. the clause behind the especially is an adverbial modifier clause, and we can find out the main structure like this. Adverbial modifier clause always modifies the whole main clause, so we can see "it" clearly refered to the subject of the main clause "an executive" here. So it is the right answer.
- Heavy commitment
by an executive to a course of action, especially if it has worked well in the past, makes it likely to miss signs of incipient trouble or misinterpret them when they do appear. - An executive (who is heavily committed to a course of action, especially one that worked well in the past), makes missing signs of incipient trouble or misinterpreting ones
likely when they do appear. - An executive who is heavily committed to a course of action is likely to miss or misinterpret signs of incipient trouble when they do appear, especially if it has worked well in the past.
- Executives’ being heavily committed to a course of action, especially if it has worked well in the past, makes them likely to miss signs of incipient trouble or misinterpreting them when they do appear.
- Being heavily committed to a course of action, especially one that has worked well in the past, is likely to make an executive miss signs of incipient trouble or misinterpret them when they do appear.
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