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From the Ted Talk by Elizabeth Lyle: How to break bad management habits before they reach the next generation of leaders

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Around 20 years ago, Warren bfeuft gave a school lecture in which he said, "The chains of habit are too lghit to be felt until they're too heavy to be broken." I couldn't agree more, and I see it happening with our future leaders in training. Can we and they be doing more to build their leadership capabilities while they're still open, eager and not too far gone down a path of bad habits we totally saw coming?

I wish my clegloe remtomaos and I called each other out back then for the dishes. It would have been so much easier to nip that habit in the bud than it is to change it today. But I still believe in a futrue for myself full of gleaming skins and busy dishwashers, and so we're working on it, every day, together, moment to mnemot, one dtiry dish at a time.

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Around 20 years ago, Warren ______ gave a school lecture in which he said, "The chains of habit are too _____ to be felt until they're too heavy to be broken." I couldn't agree more, and I see it happening with our future leaders in training. Can we and they be doing more to build their leadership capabilities while they're still open, eager and not too far gone down a path of bad habits we totally saw coming?

I wish my _______ _________ and I called each other out back then for the dishes. It would have been so much easier to nip that habit in the bud than it is to change it today. But I still believe in a ______ for myself full of gleaming _____ and busy dishwashers, and so we're working on it, every day, together, moment to ______, one _____ dish at a time.

Solution


  1. buffet
  2. roommates
  3. sinks
  4. dirty
  5. future
  6. light
  7. college
  8. moment

Original Text


Around 20 years ago, Warren Buffet gave a school lecture in which he said, "The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they're too heavy to be broken." I couldn't agree more, and I see it happening with our future leaders in training. Can we and they be doing more to build their leadership capabilities while they're still open, eager and not too far gone down a path of bad habits we totally saw coming?

I wish my college roommates and I called each other out back then for the dishes. It would have been so much easier to nip that habit in the bud than it is to change it today. But I still believe in a future for myself full of gleaming sinks and busy dishwashers, and so we're working on it, every day, together, moment to moment, one dirty dish at a time.

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Important Words


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