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From the Ted Talk by Dropbox: How one team turned a sprint project into a marathon success

Unscramble the Blue Letters


JB: We're seeing that people everywhere are challenging these inherited, default ways of working. They want ascces to more choices, more agency, the freedom to decide how they want to work. This supports them to better navigate the tosnenis in their work and life for the sake of pnresverig what's at stake for them.

KK: We did a six-month spirnt, and on November 5, 2017, Simon ran the first 15 mlies of the New York City Marathon without any sight ascsisatne. Working with the blind and visually impaired was a wonderful challenge. It's a different feeling when you go to work every day and the thing that you do actually helped the needle of humanity, in some way, move forward.

Open Cloze


JB: We're seeing that people everywhere are challenging these inherited, default ways of working. They want ______ to more choices, more agency, the freedom to decide how they want to work. This supports them to better navigate the ________ in their work and life for the sake of __________ what's at stake for them.

KK: We did a six-month ______, and on November 5, 2017, Simon ran the first 15 _____ of the New York City Marathon without any sight __________. Working with the blind and visually impaired was a wonderful challenge. It's a different feeling when you go to work every day and the thing that you do actually helped the needle of humanity, in some way, move forward.

Solution


  1. access
  2. sprint
  3. miles
  4. tensions
  5. assistance
  6. preserving

Original Text


JB: We're seeing that people everywhere are challenging these inherited, default ways of working. They want access to more choices, more agency, the freedom to decide how they want to work. This supports them to better navigate the tensions in their work and life for the sake of preserving what's at stake for them.

KK: We did a six-month sprint, and on November 5, 2017, Simon ran the first 15 miles of the New York City Marathon without any sight assistance. Working with the blind and visually impaired was a wonderful challenge. It's a different feeling when you go to work every day and the thing that you do actually helped the needle of humanity, in some way, move forward.

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Important Words


  1. access
  2. agency
  3. assistance
  4. blind
  5. challenge
  6. challenging
  7. choices
  8. city
  9. day
  10. decide
  11. default
  12. feeling
  13. freedom
  14. helped
  15. humanity
  16. impaired
  17. inherited
  18. life
  19. marathon
  20. miles
  21. move
  22. navigate
  23. needle
  24. november
  25. people
  26. preserving
  27. ran
  28. sake
  29. sight
  30. simon
  31. sprint
  32. stake
  33. supports
  34. tensions
  35. visually
  36. ways
  37. wonderful
  38. work
  39. working
  40. york