The senior managers of Acme Steel knew that a successful implementation of their business plan in the coming year was critical to the company's survival in a competitive industry. Acme could not afford for different parts of the organization to "stray" from the plan; in fact, each organizational unit needed to perform in sync with the goals of the unit above it and the units below it$.$ Thus, it was critical that individual plans of the corporation, each division, each department, and each section be

Select one:

A$.$ aligned.

B$.$ provisional.

C$.$ independent.

D$.$ mutually non$-$exclusive.

E$.$ diverse.