{"id":800,"date":"2007-04-10T09:50:13","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T09:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/the_game_is_cha\/"},"modified":"2007-04-10T09:50:13","modified_gmt":"2007-04-10T09:50:13","slug":"the_game_is_cha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/the_game_is_cha\/","title":{"rendered":"The Game is Changing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.guykawasaki.com\/\">Guy Kawasaki<\/a> gives us some innovative advice on getting a better handle our prospective managers\/leaders.&nbsp; In his post on <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.guykawasaki.com\/2007\/04\/linkedin_and_th.html\">LinkedIn and the Art of Avoiding an Asshole Boss<\/a>, Guy points us to a tool from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/home\">LinkedIn<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The game is changing.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve been writing about this for some time and things are changing.&nbsp; Don&#8217;t get me wrong, we&#8217;re not going to rid the work world of &quot;asshole&quot; managers overnight, but maybe more people are saying they won&#8217;t work for someone who fits that description.&nbsp; This will increase as we move into the coming worker shortage.&nbsp; I think another factor is that after 9\/11\/2001 many began to understand the brevity of life.&nbsp; Who wants to spend a significant portion of their life working for a&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Here are some tips on being a selective potential employee:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Be and\/or become as valuable as you can.&nbsp; Be a sought-after free agent.<\/li>\n<li>Ask your prospective manager how many books (growth and development specifically)they&#8217;ve read in the last year.&nbsp; <\/li>\n<li>Ask your prospective manager if they have a personal growth plan for the year.<\/li>\n<li>Ask your prospective manager if anyone follows them besides those they have authority over.&nbsp; In other words, is anyone following them because of their character and not their position.<\/li>\n<li>Stay away from desperation&#8230;it kills perspective and focus.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guy Kawasaki gives us some innovative advice on getting a better handle our prospective managers\/leaders.&nbsp; In his post on LinkedIn and the Art of Avoiding an Asshole Boss, Guy points us to a tool from LinkedIn. The game is changing.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve been writing about this for some time and things are changing.&nbsp; Don&#8217;t get me&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-800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800","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=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}