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From the Ted Talk by Pete Stavros: The secret ingredient of business success

Unscramble the Blue Letters


And I want to be very clear, all of this benefited the cmapony too. It's not like this was only good for workers. We saw quality ipvrome, scrap went down, productivity boomed. We became more responsive to customer daenmds, and we gained market srhae as a result. In fact, by the end of the journey, the financial results had improved so eomunsroly the company was worth ten times what it had been worth in 2015. And to put that in perspective, this was the sginle best investment for us at KKR since the 1980s. And this is with a company making garage doors. This is not like a high-flying technology business.

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And I want to be very clear, all of this benefited the _______ too. It's not like this was only good for workers. We saw quality _______, scrap went down, productivity boomed. We became more responsive to customer _______, and we gained market _____ as a result. In fact, by the end of the journey, the financial results had improved so __________ the company was worth ten times what it had been worth in 2015. And to put that in perspective, this was the ______ best investment for us at KKR since the 1980s. And this is with a company making garage doors. This is not like a high-flying technology business.

Solution


  1. company
  2. improve
  3. share
  4. enormously
  5. demands
  6. single

Original Text


And I want to be very clear, all of this benefited the company too. It's not like this was only good for workers. We saw quality improve, scrap went down, productivity boomed. We became more responsive to customer demands, and we gained market share as a result. In fact, by the end of the journey, the financial results had improved so enormously the company was worth ten times what it had been worth in 2015. And to put that in perspective, this was the single best investment for us at KKR since the 1980s. And this is with a company making garage doors. This is not like a high-flying technology business.

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Important Words


  1. benefited
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  3. business
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  5. company
  6. customer
  7. demands
  8. doors
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  25. quality
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  30. share
  31. single
  32. technology
  33. ten
  34. times
  35. workers
  36. worth