{"id":752,"date":"2007-08-09T22:39:59","date_gmt":"2007-08-09T22:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/how-far-have-we\/"},"modified":"2007-08-09T22:39:59","modified_gmt":"2007-08-09T22:39:59","slug":"how-far-have-we","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/how-far-have-we\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was thinking tonight about how far we&#8217;ve come in the land of work in America.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve read about all the vast intelligence of hedge fund managers and the great money making prowess of corporate chieftains. But I find myself unimpressed.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Where&#8217;s the authenticity?&nbsp; Where&#8217;s the guy or gal willing to give it up for their family?&nbsp; Why doesn&#8217;t Fortune give that a cover?&nbsp; Maybe I&#8217;m feeling cynical&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We at Epic Living have recently struck some strategic alliances that I&#8217;m confident will change the world.&nbsp; Not because we&#8217;re so smart or so money hungry, but because the products have <strong>you<\/strong> at their heart.&nbsp; I know you may think I&#8217;m insane to run with the heart before the P&amp;L.&nbsp; Something in me says great organizations are built on heart.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>When was the last time someone cherished or cried over your business savvy?&nbsp; During the time that I ran the halls of corporate America I was loved because of what I produced.&nbsp; Sort of one-sided if you ask me.&nbsp; Mark it&#8230;not trying to change the system, just seeing things as they were and are.<\/p>\n<p>Would you like to change the world (starting with the one you live and work in)? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was thinking tonight about how far we&#8217;ve come in the land of work in America.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve read about all the vast intelligence of hedge fund managers and the great money making prowess of corporate chieftains. But I find myself unimpressed.&nbsp; Where&#8217;s the authenticity?&nbsp; Where&#8217;s the guy or gal willing to give it up for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752","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=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}