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From the Ted Talk by Gitte Frederiksen: Great leadership is a network, not a hierarchy

Unscramble the Blue Letters


A typical view of leadership is a hraieaicrchl organization chart. Either you're a leader or you're not. Most people are being led, not taking lead. Communication often flows from top to bottom along just one line, which means it doesn't match the complexity of prblmeos which move in several directions at once. Decisions are left to one person, the ldaeer, who, being only human, can become a bottleneck of seepd and scale. They can miss new ideas, diverse cbapeilitais and pneaittol that exist all over the chart.

So in a network instead, everyone's in charge and we replace power of the few with influence of the many. Sure it looks more messy, but I'd agrue more beautiful, more multi-dimensional, more dmyainc, more like nature. I believe this model can help us do more and be less dependent on each individual. Which means it’s resilient, and progress is sustainable.

Open Cloze


A typical view of leadership is a ____________ organization chart. Either you're a leader or you're not. Most people are being led, not taking lead. Communication often flows from top to bottom along just one line, which means it doesn't match the complexity of ________ which move in several directions at once. Decisions are left to one person, the ______, who, being only human, can become a bottleneck of _____ and scale. They can miss new ideas, diverse ____________ and _________ that exist all over the chart.

So in a network instead, everyone's in charge and we replace power of the few with influence of the many. Sure it looks more messy, but I'd _____ more beautiful, more multi-dimensional, more _______, more like nature. I believe this model can help us do more and be less dependent on each individual. Which means it’s resilient, and progress is sustainable.

Solution


  1. speed
  2. potential
  3. problems
  4. dynamic
  5. leader
  6. argue
  7. hierarchical
  8. capabilities

Original Text


A typical view of leadership is a hierarchical organization chart. Either you're a leader or you're not. Most people are being led, not taking lead. Communication often flows from top to bottom along just one line, which means it doesn't match the complexity of problems which move in several directions at once. Decisions are left to one person, the leader, who, being only human, can become a bottleneck of speed and scale. They can miss new ideas, diverse capabilities and potential that exist all over the chart.

So in a network instead, everyone's in charge and we replace power of the few with influence of the many. Sure it looks more messy, but I'd argue more beautiful, more multi-dimensional, more dynamic, more like nature. I believe this model can help us do more and be less dependent on each individual. Which means it’s resilient, and progress is sustainable.

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Important Words


  1. argue
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  29. means
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  31. model
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  33. nature
  34. network
  35. organization
  36. people
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  38. potential
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  40. problems
  41. progress
  42. replace
  43. resilient
  44. scale
  45. speed
  46. sustainable
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