{"id":853,"date":"2006-12-18T20:48:49","date_gmt":"2006-12-18T20:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/ive_got_the_pow\/"},"modified":"2006-12-18T20:48:49","modified_gmt":"2006-12-18T20:48:49","slug":"ive_got_the_pow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/ive_got_the_pow\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve Got The Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Enter Bill Smith&#8230;master of all he surveys.&nbsp; The people around the table give him his due.&nbsp; No one would expect anything different, after all he is the senior, senior, executive vice president.&nbsp; Bill really doesn&#8217;t care what you think (even if he says that he does).&nbsp; This is his show and he&#8217;s got numbers to hit and people to impress.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Someone raises a hand to question the unrealistic sales projections.&nbsp; Bill quickly states that you&#8217;re either for us or against us.&nbsp; Certainly, Bill knows this will not build loyalty and dedication?&nbsp; But he presses on anyway with a plan to &quot;win.&quot;&nbsp; <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The seeds of failure have been planted.&nbsp; There&#8217;s no shoot coming from the ground, but roots are taking hold.&nbsp; No one quite understands&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The above could be one of a million stories anywhere in corporate America.&nbsp; If you&#8217;re a teacher in business school or a CEO that cares, then get your leaders in a growth program where they can learn how to handle power.&nbsp; Why wait until failure sets in?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enter Bill Smith&#8230;master of all he surveys.&nbsp; The people around the table give him his due.&nbsp; No one would expect anything different, after all he is the senior, senior, executive vice president.&nbsp; Bill really doesn&#8217;t care what you think (even if he says that he does).&nbsp; This is his show and he&#8217;s got numbers to&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-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853","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=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}