{"id":873,"date":"2006-10-06T10:45:05","date_gmt":"2006-10-06T10:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/end_vs_means\/"},"modified":"2006-10-06T10:45:05","modified_gmt":"2006-10-06T10:45:05","slug":"end_vs_means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/end_vs_means\/","title":{"rendered":"Ends vs. Means"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my last entry I told you how dangerous it is for skills development to exceed character development.&nbsp; This piece from <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2006\/09\/29\/technology\/pluggedin_lashinsky_hurd.fortune\/index.htm?postversion=2006100118\">Fortune<\/a> illustrates the point.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The end doesn&#8217;t justify the means!<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s ironic here is that we&#8217;ve become a business culture that disagrees with the statement above.&nbsp; When the cameras are rolling we espouse character, integrity and good judgment.&nbsp; But when the lights go out we a apply our instincts (instincts not held in check by integrity equals bad behavior) or a &quot;do what you&#8217;ve got to do&quot; approach.&nbsp; In the end, its pretty obvious what certain organizations really believe.<\/p>\n<p>The question remains; what kind of legacy is this business culture creating?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my last entry I told you how dangerous it is for skills development to exceed character development.&nbsp; This piece from Fortune illustrates the point.&nbsp; The end doesn&#8217;t justify the means! What&#8217;s ironic here is that we&#8217;ve become a business culture that disagrees with the statement above.&nbsp; When the cameras are rolling we espouse character,&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-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873","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=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}