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From the Ted Talk by Margaret Heffernan: Forget the pecking order at work
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Now, that was 20 years ago, and now I visit companies that have banned coffee cups at desks because they want people to hang out around the coffee machines and talk to each other. The Swedes even have a special term for this. They call it fika, which means more than a cofefe break. It means clecvolite restoration. At Idexx, a company up in mniae, they've created vaeeltgbe gadners on campus so that people from different parts of the business can work together and get to know the whole business that way. Have they all gone mad? Quite the opposite — they've feurigd out that when the going gets tough, and it always will get tgouh if you're doing breakthrough work that really matters, what people need is social support, and they need to know who to ask for help. cnpiaeoms don't have ideas; only people do. And what motivates people are the bonds and loyalty and trust they develop between each other. What matters is the mortar, not just the bricks.
Open Cloze
Now, that was 20 years ago, and now I visit companies that have banned coffee cups at desks because they want people to hang out around the coffee machines and talk to each other. The Swedes even have a special term for this. They call it fika, which means more than a ______ break. It means __________ restoration. At Idexx, a company up in _____, they've created _________ _______ on campus so that people from different parts of the business can work together and get to know the whole business that way. Have they all gone mad? Quite the opposite — they've _______ out that when the going gets tough, and it always will get _____ if you're doing breakthrough work that really matters, what people need is social support, and they need to know who to ask for help. _________ don't have ideas; only people do. And what motivates people are the bonds and loyalty and trust they develop between each other. What matters is the mortar, not just the bricks.
Solution
- tough
- maine
- gardens
- coffee
- collective
- companies
- vegetable
- figured
Original Text
Now, that was 20 years ago, and now I visit companies that have banned coffee cups at desks because they want people to hang out around the coffee machines and talk to each other. The Swedes even have a special term for this. They call it fika, which means more than a coffee break. It means collective restoration. At Idexx, a company up in Maine, they've created vegetable gardens on campus so that people from different parts of the business can work together and get to know the whole business that way. Have they all gone mad? Quite the opposite — they've figured out that when the going gets tough, and it always will get tough if you're doing breakthrough work that really matters, what people need is social support, and they need to know who to ask for help. Companies don't have ideas; only people do. And what motivates people are the bonds and loyalty and trust they develop between each other. What matters is the mortar, not just the bricks.
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