{"id":240,"date":"2012-03-16T09:40:17","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T09:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/leadership-starts-with-the-heart\/"},"modified":"2012-03-16T09:40:17","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T09:40:17","slug":"leadership-starts-with-the-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/leadership-starts-with-the-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Leadership Starts with the Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/epicliving.blogs.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c78f953ef016763ddbae1970b-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mf59\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c78f953ef016763ddbae1970b image-full\" src=\"http:\/\/epicliving.blogs.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c78f953ef016763ddbae1970b-800wi\" title=\"Mf59\" \/><\/a><br \/>We&#39;ve all encountered organizations who have systems that seem to work smoothly. For example, in banking, Chase will probably get 99% of their transactions right today. Accenture has a process that will react when a company puts out an RFP. But as great as their processes may be, if the leaders inside lack heart, there is something fundamentally wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Leadership starts with the heart. Indeed, indeed.<\/p>\n<p>Great organizations (small or large) begin from the heart. Their business models are full of art. That kind of art that solved a problem, made a customer smile or inspired a child to dream. No guarantees of success I know, and certainly you&#39;ve got to have a business model that can make\/raise money. But if you listen to music don&#39;t you want the melody along with the rhythm? If the organization only has one side of the equation and not <strong>both<\/strong>, then you&#39;re looking at a hollow endeavor.<\/p>\n<p>The great warning goes out to organizations that abandon the heart, thinking the head can do it all.&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#39;ve all encountered organizations who have systems that seem to work smoothly. For example, in banking, Chase will probably get 99% of their transactions right today. Accenture has a process that will react when a company puts out an RFP. But as great as their processes may be, if the leaders inside lack heart, there&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,123,6,170],"tags":[949,22,950,947,275,948,336,582,946,177,945],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-commentary","category-leadership-development","category-learning","category-management","tag-accenture","tag-business","tag-business-model","tag-chase","tag-heart","tag-jp-morgan-chase","tag-leadership","tag-leadership-development-2","tag-leadership-motivations","tag-management-2","tag-starts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","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=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}