To provide external motivation, Aspen is considering a sales contest. What is the best advice to give Aspen as she designs the contest?
A) Keep contest time frames short to increase the number of winners.
B) Use contests frequently to ensure long-term motivation.
C) Expand territory sizes to ensure the contest motivates all salespeople.
D) Utilize the same reward for every sales contest to ensure equity.
E) Provide cash bonuses to all contest winners to ensure full participation.
A
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Consider a project composed of activities X and Y having equal length and performed in that order
Both activities can be laddered such that the first half of each activity is the predecessor for its own second half, so X1 precedes X2 and Y1 precedes Y2. The first half of X1 is also the predecessor for Y1. If the laddering procedure were performed again activities X and Y would be divided in four parts each, with precedence working as it did in the first split. Derive an expression for the minimum length of the project as laddering increases.