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From the Ted Talk by Rosita Najmi: What's your leadership language?


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As an iarnian refugee who grew up in rural east Tennessee, and someone who studied, lived and worked in over 30 countries, I thought I knew how to navigate across cultures and languages. I was wrong. There I was, day one of business school, getting my bireangs and hearing an alien language.

It wasn't English, French, or my native peirasn. It was a bouillabaisse of languages, jargon from across the onaagtnoiirazl multiverse: the corporate world, the nonprofit sphere, international development and the public sector. It was weird.

In bnesiuss school, I thought I'd learn about leadership styles. What I found were lhsreideap languages. And I learned that by becoming conversant in these languages that I could communicate with and cutobirnte to all of these worlds. So how does one become muitnigualll? Here's my story.

Open Cloze


As an _______ refugee who grew up in rural east Tennessee, and someone who studied, lived and worked in over 30 countries, I thought I knew how to navigate across cultures and languages. I was wrong. There I was, day one of business school, getting my ________ and hearing an alien language.

It wasn't English, French, or my native _______. It was a bouillabaisse of languages, jargon from across the ______________ multiverse: the corporate world, the nonprofit sphere, international development and the public sector. It was weird.

In ________ school, I thought I'd learn about leadership styles. What I found were __________ languages. And I learned that by becoming conversant in these languages that I could communicate with and __________ to all of these worlds. So how does one become ____________? Here's my story.

Solution


  1. persian
  2. leadership
  3. iranian
  4. multilingual
  5. contribute
  6. bearings
  7. business
  8. organizational

Original Text


As an Iranian refugee who grew up in rural east Tennessee, and someone who studied, lived and worked in over 30 countries, I thought I knew how to navigate across cultures and languages. I was wrong. There I was, day one of business school, getting my bearings and hearing an alien language.

It wasn't English, French, or my native Persian. It was a bouillabaisse of languages, jargon from across the organizational multiverse: the corporate world, the nonprofit sphere, international development and the public sector. It was weird.

In business school, I thought I'd learn about leadership styles. What I found were leadership languages. And I learned that by becoming conversant in these languages that I could communicate with and contribute to all of these worlds. So how does one become multilingual? Here's my story.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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