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From the Ted Talk by Hamdi Ulukaya: The anti-CEO playbook

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(apsaulpe)

In painting those walls, we got to know each other. We believed in each other. And we figured it out together. Five years, me and all my culgeleoas, we never left the factory. We worked day and night, through the holidays, to fix that plant. The best part of Chobani for me is this: the same eaxct people who were given up on were the ones who built it back 100 times better than before. And they all have a financial stake in the company today.

(Applause)

And all this time, I kept wordnnieg — you see, I'm not a busassnmien, I don't come from that toiidtran — I just kept wondering: What is this all about? crrootape America says it's about profits. Mainstream business says it's about money. The CEO playbook says it's about sehdelaohrrs. And so much is sacrificed for it — it's factories, communities, jobs. But not by CEOs. CEOs have their employees suffer for them. But yet, the CEOs's pay goes up and up and up. And so many people are left behind.

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In painting those walls, we got to know each other. We believed in each other. And we figured it out together. Five years, me and all my __________, we never left the factory. We worked day and night, through the holidays, to fix that plant. The best part of Chobani for me is this: the same _____ people who were given up on were the ones who built it back 100 times better than before. And they all have a financial stake in the company today.

(Applause)

And all this time, I kept _________ — you see, I'm not a ___________, I don't come from that _________ — I just kept wondering: What is this all about? _________ America says it's about profits. Mainstream business says it's about money. The CEO playbook says it's about ____________. And so much is sacrificed for it — it's factories, communities, jobs. But not by CEOs. CEOs have their employees suffer for them. But yet, the CEOs's pay goes up and up and up. And so many people are left behind.

Solution


  1. wondering
  2. shareholders
  3. tradition
  4. exact
  5. colleagues
  6. corporate
  7. businessman
  8. applause

Original Text


(Applause)

In painting those walls, we got to know each other. We believed in each other. And we figured it out together. Five years, me and all my colleagues, we never left the factory. We worked day and night, through the holidays, to fix that plant. The best part of Chobani for me is this: the same exact people who were given up on were the ones who built it back 100 times better than before. And they all have a financial stake in the company today.

(Applause)

And all this time, I kept wondering — you see, I'm not a businessman, I don't come from that tradition — I just kept wondering: What is this all about? Corporate America says it's about profits. Mainstream business says it's about money. The CEO playbook says it's about shareholders. And so much is sacrificed for it — it's factories, communities, jobs. But not by CEOs. CEOs have their employees suffer for them. But yet, the CEOs's pay goes up and up and up. And so many people are left behind.

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