{"id":793,"date":"2007-04-26T10:58:37","date_gmt":"2007-04-26T10:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/i_really_didnt_\/"},"modified":"2007-04-26T10:58:37","modified_gmt":"2007-04-26T10:58:37","slug":"i_really_didnt_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/i_really_didnt_\/","title":{"rendered":"They Really Didn&#8217;t Want His Opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know many organizations that say (especially in meetings and presentations) they want candor and open dialog.&nbsp; But this <a href=\"http:\/\/sundaygazettemail.com\/section\/News\/2007042528\">piece<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/sundaygazettemail.com\/section\/Top+Stories\/2007-04-22\">The Charleston Gazette<\/a> shows how organizations can stray far from the spirit of candor.&nbsp; Specifically, how Kaiser Permanente reacted to a scathing email.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe you would say Mr. Deal should tried a different approach.&nbsp; I guess you could say that, but I think this story says a lot about the cultish nature of some organizations.&nbsp; See my <a href=\"http:\/\/epicliving.blogs.com\/epic_living\/2006\/08\/is_it_a_cult_or.html\">post<\/a> on this from August of 2006.&nbsp; It addresses some of what happened at Kaiser.<\/p>\n<p>I always think giving your opinion is an art.&nbsp; You have to know the players, know the pulse of the room, know what words to use, etc.&nbsp; But in the end, if the company only cares about one opinion (their own), then you might be working for a cult.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know many organizations that say (especially in meetings and presentations) they want candor and open dialog.&nbsp; But this piece from the The Charleston Gazette shows how organizations can stray far from the spirit of candor.&nbsp; Specifically, how Kaiser Permanente reacted to a scathing email. Maybe you would say Mr. Deal should tried a different&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-793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793","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=793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}