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From the Ted Talk by Halla Tómasdóttir: Use your voice, vote and wallet for climate action

Unscramble the Blue Letters

and that's what the B Team lredaes are trying to do, and we need a lot more people to join us. But brave leadership in a broken system isn’t going to work, so we have to write the rules, we have to change who, to change how. And I say change who to change how is the transformational lever. It’s going to help your company become future-fit. It's going to help unlock the innovation you need. So it's a lever to lead the transformation. But let's not excsue the role of governments. Governments have to write the rules. They have to aigln the incentives. They have to rqueire business to msuraee what matters.

Open Cloze

and that's what the B Team _______ are trying to do, and we need a lot more people to join us. But brave leadership in a broken system isn’t going to work, so we have to write the rules, we have to change who, to change how. And I say change who to change how is the transformational lever. It’s going to help your company become future-fit. It's going to help unlock the innovation you need. So it's a lever to lead the transformation. But let's not ______ the role of governments. Governments have to write the rules. They have to _____ the incentives. They have to _______ business to _______ what matters.

Solution

  1. excuse
  2. require
  3. align
  4. leaders
  5. measure

Original Text

and that's what the B Team leaders are trying to do, and we need a lot more people to join us. But brave leadership in a broken system isn’t going to work, so we have to write the rules, we have to change who, to change how. And I say change who to change how is the transformational lever. It’s going to help your company become future-fit. It's going to help unlock the innovation you need. So it's a lever to lead the transformation. But let's not excuse the role of governments. Governments have to write the rules. They have to align the incentives. They have to require business to measure what matters.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
business leaders 5
civil society 3
team leaders 3
brave leadership 3
global south 2
hard work 2
bring people 2
huge opportunity 2
economic system 2
put pressure 2

Important Words

  1. align
  2. brave
  3. broken
  4. business
  5. change
  6. company
  7. excuse
  8. governments
  9. incentives
  10. innovation
  11. join
  12. lead
  13. leaders
  14. leadership
  15. lever
  16. lot
  17. matters
  18. measure
  19. people
  20. require
  21. role
  22. rules
  23. system
  24. team
  25. transformation
  26. transformational
  27. unlock
  28. work
  29. write