full transcript

From the Ted Talk by Dan Pink: The puzzle of motivation

Unscramble the Blue Letters


They call them FedEx Days. Why? Because you have to deliver something oegnhirvt. It's pretty; not bad. It's a huge trademark violation, but it's pretty clever.

(Laughter)

That one day of intense autonomy has produced a whole array of software fixes that might never have eiesxtd.

It's wroked so well that ailatassn has taken it to the next leevl with 20% time — done, famously, at Google — where egnrniees can spend 20% of their time working on anything they want. They have autonomy over their time, their task, their team, their technique. Radical amounts of autonomy. And at Google, as many of you know, about half of the new pturcods in a typical year are birthed during that 20% time: things like Gmail, Orkut, Google News.

Open Cloze


They call them FedEx Days. Why? Because you have to deliver something _________. It's pretty; not bad. It's a huge trademark violation, but it's pretty clever.

(Laughter)

That one day of intense autonomy has produced a whole array of software fixes that might never have _______.

It's ______ so well that _________ has taken it to the next _____ with 20% time — done, famously, at Google — where _________ can spend 20% of their time working on anything they want. They have autonomy over their time, their task, their team, their technique. Radical amounts of autonomy. And at Google, as many of you know, about half of the new ________ in a typical year are birthed during that 20% time: things like Gmail, Orkut, Google News.

Solution


  1. overnight
  2. atlassian
  3. worked
  4. engineers
  5. level
  6. existed
  7. products

Original Text


They call them FedEx Days. Why? Because you have to deliver something overnight. It's pretty; not bad. It's a huge trademark violation, but it's pretty clever.

(Laughter)

That one day of intense autonomy has produced a whole array of software fixes that might never have existed.

It's worked so well that Atlassian has taken it to the next level with 20% time — done, famously, at Google — where engineers can spend 20% of their time working on anything they want. They have autonomy over their time, their task, their team, their technique. Radical amounts of autonomy. And at Google, as many of you know, about half of the new products in a typical year are birthed during that 20% time: things like Gmail, Orkut, Google News.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
law school 3
candle problem 3
operating system 3
people offered 3
legal skills 2
extrinsic motivators 2
intrinsic motivators 2
mit students 2
london school 2
high performance 2
building blocks 2


Important Words


  1. amounts
  2. array
  3. atlassian
  4. autonomy
  5. bad
  6. birthed
  7. call
  8. clever
  9. day
  10. days
  11. deliver
  12. engineers
  13. existed
  14. famously
  15. fedex
  16. fixes
  17. gmail
  18. google
  19. huge
  20. intense
  21. laughter
  22. level
  23. news
  24. orkut
  25. overnight
  26. pretty
  27. produced
  28. products
  29. radical
  30. software
  31. spend
  32. task
  33. team
  34. technique
  35. time
  36. trademark
  37. typical
  38. violation
  39. worked
  40. working
  41. year