Carol’s organization is in the middle of large-scale changes. The upper-level management has identified a part of its target market whose needs are not being met. Several strategic leaders at the organization believe that they have developed a new technology that can meet these needs and have begun the process of changing the organization to address this market using this new technology. Carol leads an important part of the organization. In several meetings she has expressed her support for the changes. However, in reality, she has done nothing to commit her people to the effort, contribute ideas to change key processes, or deliver resources that her area is in control of and could help the project. In fact, it has been learned that she has even gone so far as to tell the people on her
team that she believes that this change will fail. Carol can be described as a ______.
a. skeptic
b. freezer
c. fence-sitter
d. true resister
d. true resister
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