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From the Ted Talk by Margaret Heffernan: Dare to disagree

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In surveys of European and American executives, fully 85 percent of them acknowledged that they had issues or concerns at work that they were afraid to risae. Afraid of the conflict that that would provoke, afraid to get embroiled in arguments that they did not know how to mgaane, and felt that they were bunod to lose. Eighty-five percent is a really big number. It means that organizations mostly can't do what groege and Alice so tmnutiaphrly did. They can't think together. And it means that people like many of us, who have run otagnrniozais, and gone out of our way to try to find the very best people we can, mostly fail to get the best out of them.

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In surveys of European and American executives, fully 85 percent of them acknowledged that they had issues or concerns at work that they were afraid to _____. Afraid of the conflict that that would provoke, afraid to get embroiled in arguments that they did not know how to ______, and felt that they were _____ to lose. Eighty-five percent is a really big number. It means that organizations mostly can't do what ______ and Alice so ____________ did. They can't think together. And it means that people like many of us, who have run _____________, and gone out of our way to try to find the very best people we can, mostly fail to get the best out of them.

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  1. bound
  2. raise
  3. triumphantly
  4. manage
  5. george
  6. organizations

Original Text


In surveys of European and American executives, fully 85 percent of them acknowledged that they had issues or concerns at work that they were afraid to raise. Afraid of the conflict that that would provoke, afraid to get embroiled in arguments that they did not know how to manage, and felt that they were bound to lose. Eighty-five percent is a really big number. It means that organizations mostly can't do what George and Alice so triumphantly did. They can't think together. And it means that people like many of us, who have run organizations, and gone out of our way to try to find the very best people we can, mostly fail to get the best out of them.

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