{"id":209,"date":"2012-08-13T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/fear_and_greed\/"},"modified":"2012-08-13T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T07:00:00","slug":"fear_and_greed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/fear_and_greed\/","title":{"rendered":"Fear and Greed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This post was originally written in 2006, it was timely then and timely now. Is your organization paying attention?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I read today that <a class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jeffrey_Skilling\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Jeffrey Skilling\">Jeff Skilling<\/a> of Enron fame wasn&#39;t in &quot;it&quot; for the money.&#0160; He just wanted to build a solid business.&#0160; I&#39;m not here to judge him, but his comments are telling&#8230;as it relates to <a class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/epicliving.blogs.com\/epic_living\/2012\/05\/what-do-you-fear.html\" rel=\"autointext\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"What Do You Fear?\">fear<\/a> and greed.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, how great it would be if every junior executive\/manager got the workshop on fear and greed.&#0160; It wouldn&#39;t guarantee total bliss, but it might reduce the wrecks.&#0160; Sadly, corporations fail to talk about this due to their own addictions.&#0160; You see fear and greed can be habit forming.&#0160; They seem OK when you first taste, but leave behind ruined lives afterward.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#39;re new to management or ownership, take some time to deal with the issues of fear and greed.&#0160; No matter how well you think things are going.&#0160; Your employees\/subordinates will thank you for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post was originally written in 2006, it was timely then and timely now. Is your organization paying attention?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,5,123,170],"tags":[799,800,750,215,798,797,336,624],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-commentary","category-entrepreneur-advice","category-leadership-development","category-management","tag-corporate-greed","tag-corporate-leaders","tag-corporations","tag-fear","tag-fear-and-greed","tag-greed","tag-leadership","tag-managers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","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=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}