{"id":1061,"date":"2005-05-13T10:36:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-13T10:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/which_way_is_up\/"},"modified":"2005-05-13T10:36:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-13T10:36:00","slug":"which_way_is_up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/which_way_is_up\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Way Is Up?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\">I sat in a meeting today where the discussion was centered on \u201cnext steps\u201d relating to yesterday\u2019s event.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>I\u2019m suspicious of \u201cevents.\u201d<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>They\u2019re momentary lifts in behavior.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>I think organizations like them because of the ease associated.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>It\u2019s much harder to do something daily.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Confronting our daily dysfunctions is difficult.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>As various opinions were given, I just observed.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Observing is a great exercise.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>So much is revealed when we slow down.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>I spoke only once, but this brought a high dose of silence.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>\u201cWe must exhibit, on a personal basis, the behaviors we want to see in the people we lead,\u201d is what I proclaimed.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>We have a glaring weakness in the area personal accountability.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>This is more than likely the reason we put on events, rather than daily development.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>As we seek greatness growth and development are the keys to being effective.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>I am going to write a growth and development program for my organization.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>A more detailed version of the Epic Living Influence\/Strengths Program would be a great start.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>What they will do with it is in question.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sat in a meeting today where the discussion was centered on \u201cnext steps\u201d relating to yesterday\u2019s event.&nbsp; I\u2019m suspicious of \u201cevents.\u201d&nbsp; They\u2019re momentary lifts in behavior.&nbsp; I think organizations like them because of the ease associated.&nbsp; It\u2019s much harder to do something daily.&nbsp; Confronting our daily dysfunctions is difficult.&nbsp; As various opinions were given,&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-1061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061","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=1061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}