{"id":508,"date":"2008-10-27T12:35:12","date_gmt":"2008-10-27T12:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/ready-to-lead\/"},"modified":"2008-10-27T12:35:12","modified_gmt":"2008-10-27T12:35:12","slug":"ready-to-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/ready-to-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Prepared to Lead?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Where would we be without the media (Internet, paper, your organization, your boss, etc.)?&#0160; Constant messaging about what&#39;s important-usually relating to their own selfish motivations.&#0160; Wasn&#39;t it Hearst who said his organization was in the business of selling newspapers, not reporting the news?&#0160; Regardless, you&#39;re hearing it everyday.<\/p>\n<p>I mention the above to gage if any of the information we absorb is preparing us to lead.&#0160; By now, I would think we know how important leadership is.&#0160; Everyone would agree that quality leadership is vital in good times and in the crisis times.&#0160; See the U.S. Congress for a great example of how some leaders never get&#0160;this.&#0160; <\/p>\n<p>The problem lies in our reluctance to experience the upfront pain of growing and changing.&#0160; For some this happens immediately, for others a little after the event or show is over.<\/p>\n<p>Why do we give up and give in?<\/p>\n<p>Here are some reasons to consider:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The microwave oven.&#0160; Take your growth and heat for three minutes, on high, and voila instant change.\n<li>Success.&#0160; We think our success says something more than it does.\n<li>Busy lives.&#0160; We say yes to everything and never learn the art of saying the leader&#39;s most important word; no.\n<li>The media has convinced us that by becoming leadership voyeurs, we have all we need.\n<li>We look for leadership love in all the wrong places. <\/li>\n<\/li>\n<\/li>\n<\/li>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where would we be without the media (Internet, paper, your organization, your boss, etc.)?&#0160; Constant messaging about what&#39;s important-usually relating to their own selfish motivations.&#0160; Wasn&#39;t it Hearst who said his organization was in the business of selling newspapers, not reporting the news?&#0160; Regardless, you&#39;re hearing it everyday. I mention the above to gage if&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,123,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coaching","category-leadership-development","category-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","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=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}