Critical Thinking

You are the district manager of a luxury watch producer, and sales have been steadily declining. You hold a
meeting with your production and sales staff to attempt to identify the reasons for the decline, and the following
reasons are offered for the decreased sales:
slow economy, so no one is buying watches of any kind;
salespeople are not provided adequate resources to properly market the watches;
the quality of the watches has declined to the point that people do not want to buy them;
the supply chain is unable to keep up with orders, so deliveries are slow, and customers are cancelling orders;
the financial manager does not like the marketing department, so we cannot trust the numbers he produces;