{"id":588,"date":"2008-05-20T03:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T03:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/why-meet\/"},"modified":"2008-05-20T03:30:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-20T03:30:00","slug":"why-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/why-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Meet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seth Godin posts on <a href=\"http:\/\/sethgodin.typepad.com\/seths_blog\/2008\/05\/the-new-standar.html\">The new standard of meetings and conferences<\/a>.&nbsp; The piece provides practical approaches to making meetings\/conferences work.&nbsp; But I&#8217;m most intrigued by the implication of how organizations accept the status que.&nbsp; The practice of pretending that yesterday&#8217;s dinner is really not left-overs.<\/p>\n<p>I know many people who work in organizations that have meetings and interactions without knowing why.&nbsp; Maybe it falls under blind allegiance, maybe a desire to hold onto what once was.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Ever sat in a conference or meeting and found yourself more interested in your watch?&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Acknowledged or not, many leaders are under the hypnotic spell of being ok and satisfied.<\/p>\n<p>Time for some creative discomfort and dissatisfaction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seth Godin posts on The new standard of meetings and conferences.&nbsp; The piece provides practical approaches to making meetings\/conferences work.&nbsp; But I&#8217;m most intrigued by the implication of how organizations accept the status que.&nbsp; The practice of pretending that yesterday&#8217;s dinner is really not left-overs. I know many people who work in organizations that have&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,6,170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-commentary","category-learning","category-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588","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=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}