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Bob Sutton
Episode 131
Vocabulary
scale (verb)
- Definition:
- to make something bigger or grow, like a business or project
- Example from the episode:
- “You have done a lot of research, teaching, and writing about best practices for how companies can best scale.”
- Example sentence:
- “She hired more staff to scale her bakery business.”
revelation (noun)
- Definition:
- discovering or learning something new or surprising
- Example from the episode:
- “Now, there’s also another aspect of scaling, which for us was a revelation.”
- Example sentence:
- “She had a revelation about her career path during the meeting.”
meta (adjective)
- Definition:
- when something refers to itself; for example, a story about a story, or a film about making films
- Example from the episode:
- “I’m going to ask you to get meta for a moment.”
- Example sentence:
- “In the film, the main character made a meta statement about being in a movie.”
strike a chord (idiom)
- Definition:
- to cause a strong emotional response
- Example from the episode:
- “A lot of the difficulty I have with the way corporate leaders communicate their mindset is they tend to use very abstract language that doesn’t strike a chord, or at worst, it’s confusing.”
- Example sentence:
- “Her book did not strike a chord with most readers.”