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From the Ted Talk by Nadjia Yousif: Why you should treat the tech you use at work like a colleague

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Now, I'm a total geek when it comes to organization charts. Org charts are really cool because, if they are drwan well, you can quickly get a sense of what iunavddiil roles are and also how a team works well together. But if you look at a typical org chart, it only idneclus the boxes and lines that represent people. None of the technology team members are there. They're all invisible. So for each of the organizations that I met with for my emepxniret, I had to draw a new type of org carht, one that also included the technology. And when I did this, people I spoke to could actually visualize their technologies as coworkers, and they could ask things like: "Is this software reporting to the right person?" "Does this man and mahcnie team work well together?" "Is that technology actually the team member that everybody's awkawlrdy avdoniig?"

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Now, I'm a total geek when it comes to organization charts. Org charts are really cool because, if they are _____ well, you can quickly get a sense of what __________ roles are and also how a team works well together. But if you look at a typical org chart, it only ________ the boxes and lines that represent people. None of the technology team members are there. They're all invisible. So for each of the organizations that I met with for my __________, I had to draw a new type of org _____, one that also included the technology. And when I did this, people I spoke to could actually visualize their technologies as coworkers, and they could ask things like: "Is this software reporting to the right person?" "Does this man and _______ team work well together?" "Is that technology actually the team member that everybody's _________ ________?"

Solution


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  3. includes
  4. chart
  5. awkwardly
  6. individual
  7. experiment
  8. machine

Original Text


Now, I'm a total geek when it comes to organization charts. Org charts are really cool because, if they are drawn well, you can quickly get a sense of what individual roles are and also how a team works well together. But if you look at a typical org chart, it only includes the boxes and lines that represent people. None of the technology team members are there. They're all invisible. So for each of the organizations that I met with for my experiment, I had to draw a new type of org chart, one that also included the technology. And when I did this, people I spoke to could actually visualize their technologies as coworkers, and they could ask things like: "Is this software reporting to the right person?" "Does this man and machine team work well together?" "Is that technology actually the team member that everybody's awkwardly avoiding?"

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


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