full transcript

From the Ted Talk by Stanley McChrystal: The military case for sharing knowledge

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Now, we did what we knew, how we had grown up, and one of the things that we knew, that was in our DNA, was secrecy. It was security. It was protecting information. It was the idea that information was the loboelifd and it was what would poectrt and keep polpee safe. And we had a sense that, as we operated within our organizations, it was important to keep information in the silos within the organizations, particularly only give information to people had a demonstrated need to know. But the qiusoetn often came, who needed to know? Who needed, who had to have the information so that they could do the important parts of the job that you needed? And in a tightly coupled world, that's very hard to pedcrit. It's very hard to know who needs to have information and who doesn't. I used to deal with iltenlncigee agencies, and I'd clompain that they weren't sharing enough intelligence, and with a straight face, they'd look at me and they'd say, "What aren't you getting?" (Laughter) I said, "If I knew that, we wouldn't have a problem."

Open Cloze


Now, we did what we knew, how we had grown up, and one of the things that we knew, that was in our DNA, was secrecy. It was security. It was protecting information. It was the idea that information was the _________ and it was what would _______ and keep ______ safe. And we had a sense that, as we operated within our organizations, it was important to keep information in the silos within the organizations, particularly only give information to people had a demonstrated need to know. But the ________ often came, who needed to know? Who needed, who had to have the information so that they could do the important parts of the job that you needed? And in a tightly coupled world, that's very hard to _______. It's very hard to know who needs to have information and who doesn't. I used to deal with ____________ agencies, and I'd ________ that they weren't sharing enough intelligence, and with a straight face, they'd look at me and they'd say, "What aren't you getting?" (Laughter) I said, "If I knew that, we wouldn't have a problem."

Solution


  1. people
  2. complain
  3. question
  4. protect
  5. lifeblood
  6. intelligence
  7. predict

Original Text


Now, we did what we knew, how we had grown up, and one of the things that we knew, that was in our DNA, was secrecy. It was security. It was protecting information. It was the idea that information was the lifeblood and it was what would protect and keep people safe. And we had a sense that, as we operated within our organizations, it was important to keep information in the silos within the organizations, particularly only give information to people had a demonstrated need to know. But the question often came, who needed to know? Who needed, who had to have the information so that they could do the important parts of the job that you needed? And in a tightly coupled world, that's very hard to predict. It's very hard to know who needs to have information and who doesn't. I used to deal with intelligence agencies, and I'd complain that they weren't sharing enough intelligence, and with a straight face, they'd look at me and they'd say, "What aren't you getting?" (Laughter) I said, "If I knew that, we wouldn't have a problem."

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
al qaeda 3
edward snowden 3
foreign fighters 2


Important Words


  1. agencies
  2. complain
  3. coupled
  4. deal
  5. demonstrated
  6. dna
  7. face
  8. give
  9. grown
  10. hard
  11. idea
  12. important
  13. information
  14. intelligence
  15. job
  16. knew
  17. laughter
  18. lifeblood
  19. needed
  20. operated
  21. organizations
  22. parts
  23. people
  24. predict
  25. problem
  26. protect
  27. protecting
  28. question
  29. safe
  30. secrecy
  31. security
  32. sense
  33. sharing
  34. silos
  35. straight
  36. tightly
  37. world