{"id":1040,"date":"2005-07-20T10:22:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-20T10:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/he_means_it_the\/"},"modified":"2005-07-20T10:22:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-20T10:22:00","slug":"he_means_it_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/he_means_it_the\/","title":{"rendered":"He Means It, They Don&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\">What happens when organization cannot live out its values and beliefs?<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>More than likely employees begin to lose faith.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Obviously, decay and death could also occur.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>What causes organizations to fall into the trap of mixed messages?<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Why does a CEO get it, but those closest to customer don\u2019t?<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>If you look to those \u201cmiddle\u201d influencers you\u2019ll find the answer.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">\n<p><span face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\">The middle is where insecurities and inexperience coexist.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Since most organizations value conformity, these influencers don\u2019t know anything about original thought.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Let\u2019s face it; our job is the \u201choly grail.\u201d<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>We don\u2019t want to lose, fail or look bad.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Sounds to me like a recipe for no risk taking.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>The only hope is to catch these individuals early (before they enter the organization) or when they realize that life is a limited time offer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">\n<p><span face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\">A great deal of responsibility for our situation lies at the feet of senior management.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>As well intentioned as they can be, corporate honchos don\u2019t create environments for people to grow.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>They\u2019re so burdened by this quarter\u2019s numbers, or some Wall Street analyst\u2019s opinion.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Life is full of ironies, this is one of them.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\">Look around you, no innovative people equals no long term profit.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happens when organization cannot live out its values and beliefs?&nbsp; More than likely employees begin to lose faith.&nbsp; Obviously, decay and death could also occur.&nbsp; What causes organizations to fall into the trap of mixed messages?&nbsp; Why does a CEO get it, but those closest to customer don\u2019t?&nbsp; If you look to those \u201cmiddle\u201d&hellip;<\/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-1040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040","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=1040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}