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From the Ted Talk by Chip Conley: Measuring what makes life worthwhile

Unscramble the Blue Letters

I guess I'm sort of a curious CEO. I was also a curious eicomcnos major as an undergrad. I learned that economists mreusae everything in tangible utins of production and consumption as if each of those tangible units is exactly the same. They aren't the same. In fact, as leaders, what we need to learn is that we can influence the quality of that unit of poroudticn by creating the conditions for our eypmeoels to live their calling. In Vivian's case, her unit of production isn't the tangible hours she works, it's the itgnalinbe difference she makes during that one hour of work.

Open Cloze

I guess I'm sort of a curious CEO. I was also a curious _________ major as an undergrad. I learned that economists _______ everything in tangible _____ of production and consumption as if each of those tangible units is exactly the same. They aren't the same. In fact, as leaders, what we need to learn is that we can influence the quality of that unit of __________ by creating the conditions for our _________ to live their calling. In Vivian's case, her unit of production isn't the tangible hours she works, it's the __________ difference she makes during that one hour of work.

Solution

  1. employees
  2. production
  3. units
  4. intangible
  5. economics
  6. measure

Original Text

I guess I'm sort of a curious CEO. I was also a curious economics major as an undergrad. I learned that economists measure everything in tangible units of production and consumption as if each of those tangible units is exactly the same. They aren't the same. In fact, as leaders, what we need to learn is that we can influence the quality of that unit of production by creating the conditions for our employees to live their calling. In Vivian's case, her unit of production isn't the tangible hours she works, it's the intangible difference she makes during that one hour of work.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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Important Words

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  6. creating
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  31. work
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