{"id":880,"date":"2006-09-05T14:08:57","date_gmt":"2006-09-05T14:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/ncaa_and_proced\/"},"modified":"2006-09-05T14:08:57","modified_gmt":"2006-09-05T14:08:57","slug":"ncaa_and_proced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/ncaa_and_proced\/","title":{"rendered":"The NCAA and Procedures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malcom Gladwell has a penetrating <a href=\"http:\/\/gladwell.typepad.com\/gladwellcom\/2006\/09\/abolish_the_nca.html\">blog entry<\/a> on the insanity of the NCAA.&nbsp; If you&#8217;ve read any of his books, you know what a good writer he is.&nbsp; What he writes in his blog is equally good.<\/p>\n<p>What has always amazed me is how organizations keep rules or &quot;procedures&quot; on the books long after they&#8217;ve served their purpose.&nbsp; When was the last time your organization went through the &quot;manual&quot; to make sure everything was still relevant?&nbsp; Does anyone believe that time stands still for the NCAA, or any enterprise for that matter?&nbsp; Yet we tread on&#8230;living in the past while punishing those that have kept up with future.<\/p>\n<p>What if we started afresh?&nbsp; Somewhere the voice of time is saying; &quot;where have you been?&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malcom Gladwell has a penetrating blog entry on the insanity of the NCAA.&nbsp; If you&#8217;ve read any of his books, you know what a good writer he is.&nbsp; What he writes in his blog is equally good. What has always amazed me is how organizations keep rules or &quot;procedures&quot; on the books long after they&#8217;ve&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-880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880","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=880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}