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From the Ted Talk by Ricardo Semler: How to run a company with (almost) no rules

Unscramble the Blue Letters

As this ifoaoirmtnn started coming to people, we said things like, we don't want to see your enpesxe report, we don't want to know how many hdayolis you're taking, we don't want to know where you work. We had, at one point, 14 different offices around town, and we'd say, go to the one that's closest to your house, to the csemuotr that you're going to visit today. Don't tell us where you are. And more, even when we had thousands of people, 5,000 people, we had two people in the H.R. department, and thankfully one of them has retired. (Laughter)

Open Cloze

As this ___________ started coming to people, we said things like, we don't want to see your _______ report, we don't want to know how many ________ you're taking, we don't want to know where you work. We had, at one point, 14 different offices around town, and we'd say, go to the one that's closest to your house, to the ________ that you're going to visit today. Don't tell us where you are. And more, even when we had thousands of people, 5,000 people, we had two people in the H.R. department, and thankfully one of them has retired. (Laughter)

Solution

  1. expense
  2. customer
  3. information
  4. holidays

Original Text

As this information started coming to people, we said things like, we don't want to see your expense report, we don't want to know how many holidays you're taking, we don't want to know where you work. We had, at one point, 14 different offices around town, and we'd say, go to the one that's closest to your house, to the customer that you're going to visit today. Don't tell us where you are. And more, even when we had thousands of people, 5,000 people, we had two people in the H.R. department, and thankfully one of them has retired. (Laughter)

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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Important Words

  1. closest
  2. coming
  3. customer
  4. department
  5. expense
  6. holidays
  7. house
  8. information
  9. laughter
  10. offices
  11. people
  12. point
  13. report
  14. retired
  15. started
  16. thankfully
  17. thousands
  18. today
  19. town
  20. visit
  21. work