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From the Ted Talk by Patty McCord: 4 lessons the pandemic taught us about work, life and balance

Unscramble the Blue Letters

And you know what? For the first time in my life, the concept of best patieccrs is out the window. And you know what? We don't care what Google's doing because we're not Google. We don't care what some other company is doing. Nobody's doing it best. We're all figuring it out as we go along and we're figuring it out for our organizations in our teams at this time. So in order for people to deliver the right results, in order for people's hard work to mettar, it has to be in the context of what suesccs looks like for your ooiatgrzanin.

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And you know what? For the first time in my life, the concept of best _________ is out the window. And you know what? We don't care what Google's doing because we're not Google. We don't care what some other company is doing. Nobody's doing it best. We're all figuring it out as we go along and we're figuring it out for our organizations in our teams at this time. So in order for people to deliver the right results, in order for people's hard work to ______, it has to be in the context of what _______ looks like for your ____________.

Solution

  1. success
  2. practices
  3. organization
  4. matter

Original Text

And you know what? For the first time in my life, the concept of best practices is out the window. And you know what? We don't care what Google's doing because we're not Google. We don't care what some other company is doing. Nobody's doing it best. We're all figuring it out as we go along and we're figuring it out for our organizations in our teams at this time. So in order for people to deliver the right results, in order for people's hard work to matter, it has to be in the context of what success looks like for your organization.

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Important Words

  1. care
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  9. life
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  12. organization
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  15. practices
  16. results
  17. success
  18. teams
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  21. work