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From the Ted Talk by Sophie Williams: The rigged test of leadership

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The second thing that same piece of research found was that they stopped doing a really important part of any manager's job, and that's managing their teams. They stopped developing, meinnrotg, working with the plpeoe who was their job to take care of. But they didn't stop doing that equally. No, they mostly stopped helping, working with, developing anyone in that team who was also racially marginalized. And so in that way, the glass cliff bties twice. We're not only pushing the eitnixsg ldeaer csoelr to the edge of their cliff, we're stopping what could be this new cohort of uresdperneneretd leaders from coming up, because we're not giving them the same support, guidance, mentorship, development that the rest of their colleagues are getting.

Open Cloze


The second thing that same piece of research found was that they stopped doing a really important part of any manager's job, and that's managing their teams. They stopped developing, _________, working with the ______ who was their job to take care of. But they didn't stop doing that equally. No, they mostly stopped helping, working with, developing anyone in that team who was also racially marginalized. And so in that way, the glass cliff _____ twice. We're not only pushing the ________ ______ ______ to the edge of their cliff, we're stopping what could be this new cohort of ________________ leaders from coming up, because we're not giving them the same support, guidance, mentorship, development that the rest of their colleagues are getting.

Solution


  1. mentoring
  2. existing
  3. people
  4. leader
  5. bites
  6. closer
  7. underrepresented

Original Text


The second thing that same piece of research found was that they stopped doing a really important part of any manager's job, and that's managing their teams. They stopped developing, mentoring, working with the people who was their job to take care of. But they didn't stop doing that equally. No, they mostly stopped helping, working with, developing anyone in that team who was also racially marginalized. And so in that way, the glass cliff bites twice. We're not only pushing the existing leader closer to the edge of their cliff, we're stopping what could be this new cohort of underrepresented leaders from coming up, because we're not giving them the same support, guidance, mentorship, development that the rest of their colleagues are getting.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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poor performance 4
underrepresented leaders 3
underrepresented people 3
senior levels 3
glass ceiling 2
consistent period 2
underrepresented person 2
safe pair 2
black woman 2
white men 2


Important Words


  1. bites
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  29. racially
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  35. support
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  38. underrepresented
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