{"id":1029,"date":"2005-08-10T07:58:10","date_gmt":"2005-08-10T07:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/going_political\/"},"modified":"2005-08-10T07:58:10","modified_gmt":"2005-08-10T07:58:10","slug":"going_political","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/going_political\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Political"},"content":{"rendered":"

Does your organization embrace politics?  If the answer is yes, then it places them on a crowded field. I’ve spent many years evaluating why organizations fall into the trap of "going political."  I would also note that there is a world of difference between politics and strategy.  Strategy implies honest intent and open negotiations.  Best in class organizations know this art.  Here is a short (not all-inclusive) list of some of the reasons for going political:<\/p>\n

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  1. The organization is full of managers.  Managers have a difficult time seeing anything but those things directly in front of themselves.  This lack of vision produces expedient thinking.  When left with expedient decisions, we usually go political. <\/li>\n
  2. The organization fails to understand the power of culture (beliefs, norms., behaviors). <\/li>\n
  3. The organization fears the unknown.  Going political gives individuals the feeling of "certainty."  Ironically, the unknown is a certainty. <\/li>\n
  4. The organization is content with average.  To be great you must embrace risk and the unknown. <\/li>\n
  5. The organization is old by time and mental standards.  We have no control of the former, but we do over the latter.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Does your organization embrace politics?  If the answer is yes, then it places them on a crowded field. I’ve spent many years evaluating why organizations fall into the trap of "going political."  I would also note that there is a world of difference between politics and strategy.  Strategy implies honest intent and open negotiations.  Best…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}