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English word

control

A2Frequent NGSL-1
UK /kənˈtrəʊl/US /kənˈtrəʊl/
noun

the power to make decisions about how a country, an area, an organization, etc. is run

verb

to have power over a person, company, country, etc. so that you are able to decide what they must do or how it is run

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How Great Leaders Inspire Action | Simon Sinek | TED
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When we can communicate from the inside out, we're talking directly to the part of the brain that controls behavior, and then we allow people to rationalize it with the tangible things

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I could not believe I had pledged allegiance to research, where our job -- you know, the definition of research is to control and predict, to study phenomena for the explicit reason

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