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From the Ted Talk by Simon Sinek: How to discover your "why" in difficult times

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SS: Leadership has nothing to do with rank or title. I know many people who sit at the highest lelevs of organizations who are not leaders. We do as they tell us because they have autitohry over us, but we don't trust them and we wouldn't follow them. And yet I also know many people who sit at very low levels of organizations that have no formal rank and no formal authority, and yet they've made the choice to look after the person to the left of them and the person to the right of them, and we would trust them and follow them anywhere. Leadership is the roinsblteiispy to see those around us rise. It's the responsibility to take care of those around us. That's what leadership is. It's not about being in cgahre. It's about taking care of those in our charge. And the only thing title and authority allow you to do is lead with greater sclae. Every sgnile one of us has the outnrptpioy to be the leader we wish we had. Every single one of us.

Open Cloze

SS: Leadership has nothing to do with rank or title. I know many people who sit at the highest ______ of organizations who are not leaders. We do as they tell us because they have _________ over us, but we don't trust them and we wouldn't follow them. And yet I also know many people who sit at very low levels of organizations that have no formal rank and no formal authority, and yet they've made the choice to look after the person to the left of them and the person to the right of them, and we would trust them and follow them anywhere. Leadership is the ______________ to see those around us rise. It's the responsibility to take care of those around us. That's what leadership is. It's not about being in ______. It's about taking care of those in our charge. And the only thing title and authority allow you to do is lead with greater _____. Every ______ one of us has the ___________ to be the leader we wish we had. Every single one of us.

Solution

  1. charge
  2. levels
  3. authority
  4. opportunity
  5. responsibility
  6. scale
  7. single

Original Text

SS: Leadership has nothing to do with rank or title. I know many people who sit at the highest levels of organizations who are not leaders. We do as they tell us because they have authority over us, but we don't trust them and we wouldn't follow them. And yet I also know many people who sit at very low levels of organizations that have no formal rank and no formal authority, and yet they've made the choice to look after the person to the left of them and the person to the right of them, and we would trust them and follow them anywhere. Leadership is the responsibility to see those around us rise. It's the responsibility to take care of those around us. That's what leadership is. It's not about being in charge. It's about taking care of those in our charge. And the only thing title and authority allow you to do is lead with greater scale. Every single one of us has the opportunity to be the leader we wish we had. Every single one of us.

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