{"id":886,"date":"2006-08-02T21:25:21","date_gmt":"2006-08-02T21:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/is_it_a_cult_or\/"},"modified":"2006-08-02T21:25:21","modified_gmt":"2006-08-02T21:25:21","slug":"is_it_a_cult_or","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/is_it_a_cult_or\/","title":{"rendered":"A Cult or a Corporation?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ever notice how some corporations operate more like a cult than a business interested in growing and innovating?  Note that this does not apply to every corporation (just in case you thought I was being a little cynical).  Think about it, don’t cults require that you see everything the way the leadership does?   Don’t cults kind of demand and value conformity.  Does that remind you of the corporation you work for?<\/p>\n

Here’s some ways to tell whether you’re in a cult versus a thriving corporation\/enterprise:<\/p>\n

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  1. If they haven’t started any new businesses (inside or outside of their core disciplines) in the last five years, they’re probably a cult.<\/li>\n
  2. If they frown on true diversity (thought, personality, style, etc.) they’re a cult.<\/li>\n
  3. If they see value in dissension, they’re most likely a thriving enterprise.<\/li>\n
  4. If they serve their customer’s needs based on what those customers have asked for, they’re probably a thriving enterprise.<\/li>\n
  5. If they’re more interested, and spend most of their time on, in what happens internally (policies, procedures and meetings that go no where), then they’re a cult.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Which one do you work for?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Ever notice how some corporations operate more like a cult than a business interested in growing and innovating?  Note that this does not apply to every corporation (just in case you thought I was being a little cynical).  Think about it, don’t cults require that you see everything the way the leadership does?   Don’t cults…<\/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-886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886","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=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}