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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 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 cnpaomy 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 tmeas 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 cnextot of what success looks like for your organization.

So if we start to think about context, it's really important that we think about how we teach that. If we can tecah everybody in the company how to read a profit and loss statement, if we can teach them what the different teams do, and what they're setting out to aoslcmpcih, then people within their own small teams, and within themselves, can figure out what excellence looks like for them. And so then we can strat onraipetg relatively independently as a whole organization because we're all monvig in the same direction, trying to do the same thing.

Open Cloze

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 _______ 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 _____ 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 _______ of what success looks like for your organization.

So if we start to think about context, it's really important that we think about how we teach that. If we can _____ everybody in the company how to read a profit and loss statement, if we can teach them what the different teams do, and what they're setting out to __________, then people within their own small teams, and within themselves, can figure out what excellence looks like for them. And so then we can _____ _________ relatively independently as a whole organization because we're all ______ in the same direction, trying to do the same thing.

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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.

So if we start to think about context, it's really important that we think about how we teach that. If we can teach everybody in the company how to read a profit and loss statement, if we can teach them what the different teams do, and what they're setting out to accomplish, then people within their own small teams, and within themselves, can figure out what excellence looks like for them. And so then we can start operating relatively independently as a whole organization because we're all moving in the same direction, trying to do the same thing.

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