{"id":1048,"date":"2005-07-08T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-08T11:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/corporate_make_\/"},"modified":"2005-07-08T11:45:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-08T11:45:00","slug":"corporate_make_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/corporate_make_\/","title":{"rendered":"Corporate Make Believe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\">Ever wonder if corporate leaders believe in fairy tales?<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>I do!<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Its pure fantasy to believe that leaders become quality leaders by osmosis.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Yet look at any recent edition of The Wall Street Journal, and you\u2019ll find this to be true.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>The CEO of Morgan Stanley was fired\u2026oh, I mean he retired today.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>He said, the personal attacks become too much to bear.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>I don\u2019t know what type of development was going on inside that organization.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>But it seems to me, as a leader, Purcell should have seen the writing on the wall way before now.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Powerful corporate folks forget that power can blind you.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>The board of Morgan Stanley was also practicing fantasy when they bought the \u201cosmosis\u201d theory.<\/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\">If I were on the search team at Morgan Stanley, I would let my peers know that the world has changed.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Therefore, the new leader should see the world much differently than his predecessor did.<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 osmosis theory says; you can\u2019t become great because of some unknown act of nature.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Ninety percent of Greatness in influence can only occur by choice (I will choose to read, risk, evaluate and serve), the other ten percent by crucible.<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\">Go be great! <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wonder if corporate leaders believe in fairy tales?&nbsp; I do!&nbsp; Its pure fantasy to believe that leaders become quality leaders by osmosis.&nbsp; Yet look at any recent edition of The Wall Street Journal, and you\u2019ll find this to be true.&nbsp; The CEO of Morgan Stanley was fired\u2026oh, I mean he retired today.&nbsp; He said,&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-1048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048","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=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}