{"id":813,"date":"2007-03-15T16:53:24","date_gmt":"2007-03-15T16:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/a_different_app\/"},"modified":"2007-03-15T16:53:24","modified_gmt":"2007-03-15T16:53:24","slug":"a_different_app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/a_different_app\/","title":{"rendered":"A Different Approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/800ceoread.com\/blog\/archives\/006824.html\">800-CEO-READ<\/a> has an interesting review of a new book entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Firms-Endearment-World-Class-Companies-Passion\/dp\/0131873725\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1\/104-2019991-8187164?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1173991495&amp;sr=1-1\">Firms of Endearment: How World-Class Companies Profit from Passion and Purpose<\/a>.&nbsp; There are some quality organizations profiled and the authors assert that these organizations hold in tight tension the desires of all stakeholders.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s truly possible, but you can&#8217;t argue with the results of a Whole Foods.<\/p>\n<p>I admire any organization or individual that is driven by their purpose and passions.&nbsp; Not only is it rare, but it is courageous.<\/p>\n<p>Can you or your organization be successful pursuing these ends?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>800-CEO-READ has an interesting review of a new book entitled Firms of Endearment: How World-Class Companies Profit from Passion and Purpose.&nbsp; There are some quality organizations profiled and the authors assert that these organizations hold in tight tension the desires of all stakeholders.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s truly possible, but you can&#8217;t argue with&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-813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813","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=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}