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From the Ted Talk by Jonathan Tepperman: The risky politics of progress

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That said, by snipptirg these stories to their essence, you absolutely can distill a few common tools for problem-solving that will work in other countries and in boardrooms and in all sorts of other contexts, too.

Number one, embrace the extreme. In all the steiros we've just looked at, salvation came at a moment of existential pierl. And that was no ccoinincede. Take Canada: when Trudeau took office, he faced two looming dangers. First, though his vast, underpopulated country badly needed more biedos, its preferred source for withe workers, Europe, had just stopped eptionrxg them as it finally recovered from World War II. The other problem was that Canada's long cold war between its French and its elgsinh communities had just become a hot one. Quebec was threatening to secede, and Canadians were actually killing other Canadians over politics. Now, crtnieuos face crises all the time. Right? That's nothing seaicpl. But Trudeau's gnueis was to realize that Canada's crisis had swept away all the hurdles that usually block reform. Canada had to open up. It had no choice. And it had to rethink its identity. Again, it had no choice. And that gave Trudeau a once-in-a-generation opuintorpty to break the old ruels and write new ones. And like all our other heroes, he was smart enough to seize it.

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That said, by _________ these stories to their essence, you absolutely can distill a few common tools for problem-solving that will work in other countries and in boardrooms and in all sorts of other contexts, too.

Number one, embrace the extreme. In all the _______ we've just looked at, salvation came at a moment of existential _____. And that was no ___________. Take Canada: when Trudeau took office, he faced two looming dangers. First, though his vast, underpopulated country badly needed more ______, its preferred source for _____ workers, Europe, had just stopped _________ them as it finally recovered from World War II. The other problem was that Canada's long cold war between its French and its _______ communities had just become a hot one. Quebec was threatening to secede, and Canadians were actually killing other Canadians over politics. Now, _________ face crises all the time. Right? That's nothing _______. But Trudeau's ______ was to realize that Canada's crisis had swept away all the hurdles that usually block reform. Canada had to open up. It had no choice. And it had to rethink its identity. Again, it had no choice. And that gave Trudeau a once-in-a-generation ___________ to break the old _____ and write new ones. And like all our other heroes, he was smart enough to seize it.

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  7. english
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  11. bodies
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  13. exporting

Original Text


That said, by stripping these stories to their essence, you absolutely can distill a few common tools for problem-solving that will work in other countries and in boardrooms and in all sorts of other contexts, too.

Number one, embrace the extreme. In all the stories we've just looked at, salvation came at a moment of existential peril. And that was no coincidence. Take Canada: when Trudeau took office, he faced two looming dangers. First, though his vast, underpopulated country badly needed more bodies, its preferred source for white workers, Europe, had just stopped exporting them as it finally recovered from World War II. The other problem was that Canada's long cold war between its French and its English communities had just become a hot one. Quebec was threatening to secede, and Canadians were actually killing other Canadians over politics. Now, countries face crises all the time. Right? That's nothing special. But Trudeau's genius was to realize that Canada's crisis had swept away all the hurdles that usually block reform. Canada had to open up. It had no choice. And it had to rethink its identity. Again, it had no choice. And that gave Trudeau a once-in-a-generation opportunity to break the old rules and write new ones. And like all our other heroes, he was smart enough to seize it.

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