{"id":176,"date":"2012-11-27T07:03:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T07:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/are_you_ready\/"},"modified":"2012-11-27T07:03:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T07:03:00","slug":"are_you_ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/are_you_ready\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You Ready?"},"content":{"rendered":"

These days many young leaders are promoted to greater positions of power<\/a> quicker than ever.  It is not unusual for someone in their early forties to hold a senior leadership post in a major organization.  I've often wondered can they truly be ready for so much power.  Though some are, sadly many are not.  Why?  More than likely they've never had a constellation of advisers\/mentors, and\/or they've never had someone whose walked a few miles teach them about power, ethics and courage. <\/p>\n

As I've evaluated my own path, I've tried to remember that you must handle the small before you can handle the big.  In my past I once had an HR representative declare that they would teach a series of leadership classes (more management than anything).  I found that somewhat ironic since she couldn't handle returning phone calls in a timely manner.  <\/p>\n

And so it goes, we crave power and all the trimmings, but we forget about the span and the impact.  <\/p>\n

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These days many young leaders are promoted to greater positions of power quicker than ever. It is not unusual for someone in their early forties to hold a senior leadership post in a major organization. I’ve often wondered can they truly be ready for so much power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[625,22,23,172,336,627,9,628,626,130],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-commentary","tag-are-you-ready","tag-business","tag-career","tag-hr","tag-leadership","tag-leadership-skills","tag-money","tag-power","tag-prepared","tag-ready"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","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=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}