{"id":426,"date":"2009-10-16T03:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T03:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/hidden-costs\/"},"modified":"2009-10-16T03:25:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-16T03:25:00","slug":"hidden-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/hidden-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidden Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One thing that drove me crazy when I was paying for my sins in corporate America was all of the hidden costs inside the organization.&#0160; As a corporate manager I was always asked to cut expenses.&#0160; However, I was rarely asked to look at those hidden costs.&#0160; The costs that were silent killers.&#0160; For example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Meetings.&#0160; Need I say more?<\/li>\n<li>Training events that were&#0160;the equivalent of a U2 concert.&#0160; Entertainment versus learning here.&#0160; Feels good in the moment, but forgotten when it counts.<\/li>\n<li>Employees and their organizations who don&#39;t fully understand the difference between time and results.<\/li>\n<li>Outdated policies and procedures written 20 years ago that are as relevant as a powder blue tuxedo.<\/li>\n<li>Hiring practices that are driven by HR.&#0160; The hiring of talent is not a legal process.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If your organization really wants to&#0160;be efficient and lean, then&#0160;take a look at the hidden costs.&#0160;It could lead to a new curve.&#0160; Failure to look always leads to atrophy.&#0160;&#0160;And as we know atrophy lives next door to extinction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing that drove me crazy when I was paying for my sins in corporate America was all of the hidden costs inside the organization.&#0160; As a corporate manager I was always asked to cut expenses.&#0160; However, I was rarely asked to look at those hidden costs.&#0160; The costs that were silent killers.&#0160; For example:&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,4,123,170],"tags":[1334,622,171,582,177,1390],"class_list":["post-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-commentary","category-coaching","category-leadership-development","category-management","tag-business-coaching","tag-hiring","tag-human-resources","tag-leadership-development-2","tag-management-2","tag-process-improvement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","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=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}