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From the Ted Talk by WorkLife with Adam Grant: A world without bosses

Unscramble the Blue Letters


AG: If you work in an organization, you probably take for grnaetd all the simple structures that help you get work done. You have a schedule, you have a workspace, you're surrounded by people who are also working. Sue wanted to frguie out how people mnaage themselves when they don't have those structures. So she studied independent workers like her neighbor, who are their own bosses. She ieiwtvrneed artists and satfowre developers, consultants and graphic designers, screenwriters and coaches.

SA: The freedom was both wonderful and challenging. So now that I'm free to be anything, what do I want to be? Now that I'm free to work in any way I want to work, how do I want to work? And they also levod having that freedom. Very few of them ever mentioned yearning for an organization or wanting to cgnhae it or go back to an organization.

Open Cloze


AG: If you work in an organization, you probably take for _______ all the simple structures that help you get work done. You have a schedule, you have a workspace, you're surrounded by people who are also working. Sue wanted to ______ out how people ______ themselves when they don't have those structures. So she studied independent workers like her neighbor, who are their own bosses. She ___________ artists and ________ developers, consultants and graphic designers, screenwriters and coaches.

SA: The freedom was both wonderful and challenging. So now that I'm free to be anything, what do I want to be? Now that I'm free to work in any way I want to work, how do I want to work? And they also _____ having that freedom. Very few of them ever mentioned yearning for an organization or wanting to ______ it or go back to an organization.

Solution


  1. figure
  2. software
  3. interviewed
  4. change
  5. loved
  6. granted
  7. manage

Original Text


AG: If you work in an organization, you probably take for granted all the simple structures that help you get work done. You have a schedule, you have a workspace, you're surrounded by people who are also working. Sue wanted to figure out how people manage themselves when they don't have those structures. So she studied independent workers like her neighbor, who are their own bosses. She interviewed artists and software developers, consultants and graphic designers, screenwriters and coaches.

SA: The freedom was both wonderful and challenging. So now that I'm free to be anything, what do I want to be? Now that I'm free to work in any way I want to work, how do I want to work? And they also loved having that freedom. Very few of them ever mentioned yearning for an organization or wanting to change it or go back to an organization.

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Important Words


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