{"id":769,"date":"2007-07-03T12:10:41","date_gmt":"2007-07-03T12:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/strategy-or-div\/"},"modified":"2007-07-03T12:10:41","modified_gmt":"2007-07-03T12:10:41","slug":"strategy-or-div","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/strategy-or-div\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategy or Diversion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Does your organization call meetings for strategy or diversion?&nbsp; I spoke with a friend today who told me its the latter.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>When organizations or individuals lack clarity and direction they resort to diversion.&nbsp; Something to distract&#8230;a game of &quot;pretend.&quot;&nbsp; Almost like channel surfing with a remote at home.<\/p>\n<p>Cures for this disease are simple, but hard to live out:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Decide what you want and be prepared for the consequences <br \/>(good and bad) <\/li>\n<li>Decide to stop wasting other people&#8217;s time.&nbsp; Just because you don&#8217;t know what you want doesn&#8217;t mean everyone else is in the same boat. <\/li>\n<li>Decide to seek help&#8230;preferably with someone who is skilled and that you trust. <\/li>\n<li>Decide to keep the duration of your meetings to no more than one hour. <\/li>\n<li>Decide that too many meetings equals too many opportunities lost.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does your organization call meetings for strategy or diversion?&nbsp; I spoke with a friend today who told me its the latter.&nbsp; When organizations or individuals lack clarity and direction they resort to diversion.&nbsp; Something to distract&#8230;a game of &quot;pretend.&quot;&nbsp; Almost like channel surfing with a remote at home. Cures for this disease are simple, but&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-769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769","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=769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}