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From the Ted Talk by TED-Ed: These companies with no CEO are thriving

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Park Slope has a general manager who leads the 80 or so elpymeoes. And the largest network of worker and consumer co-ops in the wolrd, Mondragon, has a president and managers who lead the rgohuly 30,000 worker-owners and 50,000 contract workers.

But leadership roles in a co-op are very different than in a traditional company. The leadership implements peoilcis that its mbemers or worker-owners have agreed upon, by vote. And at Mondragon workers, can vote to fire the president.

At a co-op, there’s no silnge person with overarching, top-down power over everyone else, like a CEO would have in a traditional company.

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Park Slope has a general manager who leads the 80 or so _________. And the largest network of worker and consumer co-ops in the _____, Mondragon, has a president and managers who lead the _______ 30,000 worker-owners and 50,000 contract workers.

But leadership roles in a co-op are very different than in a traditional company. The leadership implements ________ that its _______ or worker-owners have agreed upon, by vote. And at Mondragon workers, can vote to fire the president.

At a co-op, there’s no ______ person with overarching, top-down power over everyone else, like a CEO would have in a traditional company.

Solution


  1. roughly
  2. employees
  3. world
  4. policies
  5. members
  6. single

Original Text


Park Slope has a general manager who leads the 80 or so employees. And the largest network of worker and consumer co-ops in the world, Mondragon, has a president and managers who lead the roughly 30,000 worker-owners and 50,000 contract workers.

But leadership roles in a co-op are very different than in a traditional company. The leadership implements policies that its members or worker-owners have agreed upon, by vote. And at Mondragon workers, can vote to fire the president.

At a co-op, there’s no single person with overarching, top-down power over everyone else, like a CEO would have in a traditional company.

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Important Words


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  3. company
  4. consumer
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  6. employees
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  8. general
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  16. members
  17. mondragon
  18. network
  19. overarching
  20. park
  21. person
  22. policies
  23. power
  24. president
  25. roles
  26. roughly
  27. single
  28. slope
  29. traditional
  30. vote
  31. worker
  32. workers
  33. world