{"id":685,"date":"2007-12-20T23:13:05","date_gmt":"2007-12-20T23:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/how-elitism-poi\/"},"modified":"2007-12-20T23:13:05","modified_gmt":"2007-12-20T23:13:05","slug":"how-elitism-poi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/how-elitism-poi\/","title":{"rendered":"How Elitism Can Poison You and Your Organization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When an organization gets lazy and just reads from the manual, they have probably embraced elitism.&nbsp; Some might call this plain old laziness.&nbsp; Individuals can make the same fatal mistake too.&nbsp; Just take a look at many senior leaders in corporate America today.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>You can reach elite status in many ways.&nbsp; You may work in corporate America and just got a big promotion or your organization may have been profiled in the latest issue of Fast Company too.&nbsp; Above all its about a mindset.&nbsp; Organizations, and people, who take the path to elitism are destined to fail.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; Elitism is built on the idea that you are superior to everyone (even those who truly are better than you are).&nbsp; The subtle deception of elitism is found in the irony of outward success, but inward waste.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how to know if you&#8217;re (individual) an elitist&#8230;some of these can be applied to an organization as well:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You&#8217;re not willing to listen to the voice of others. <\/li>\n<li>You look for your work to validate who you are. <\/li>\n<li>You think you&#8217;re the only one with the answer. <\/li>\n<li>You spend a lot of time defending your policies and procedures. <\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;re suspicious of others in the organization because they think differently. <\/li>\n<li>You don&#8217;t have an exit strategy. <\/li>\n<li>You are not well liked, but you think you are.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Is there hope for you?&nbsp; Yes, but elitists often die-hard.&nbsp; Authentic change begins with a decision to turn around.&nbsp; Your future will be defined by the choice you make.&nbsp; Just ask Neo:<\/p>\n<p><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/n0yP_f9m-pY&amp;rel=1\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\"><\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When an organization gets lazy and just reads from the manual, they have probably embraced elitism.&nbsp; Some might call this plain old laziness.&nbsp; Individuals can make the same fatal mistake too.&nbsp; Just take a look at many senior leaders in corporate America today.&nbsp; You can reach elite status in many ways.&nbsp; You may work in&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-commentary","category-leadership-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685","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=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}