{"id":908,"date":"2006-06-01T20:41:02","date_gmt":"2006-06-01T20:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/who_are_the_wor\/"},"modified":"2006-06-01T20:41:02","modified_gmt":"2006-06-01T20:41:02","slug":"who_are_the_wor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/who_are_the_wor\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Are the Working Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read a stat. this week (I think it came from the Conference Board) that said fifty percent of the workforce is dis-engaged.&nbsp; In other words they are the &quot;working dead.&quot;&nbsp; Fifty percent sounds astounding, but when companies are run by leaders who change dates on stock options, it makes total sense.&nbsp; What&#8217;s there to believe in when those in charge are crooks.&nbsp; Very little&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>My mission is to wake the working dead.&nbsp; If you&#8217;ve looked at what Epic Living offers individuals and organizations, you know the portals.&nbsp; But you need to know that its so much more than that.&nbsp; I once was a part of the working dead and I&#8217;ve inherited staffs to lead who were this way.&nbsp; I wanted more than just a paycheck and an office.&nbsp; I also woke up to vision motivated by a love for people unquenchable.&nbsp; This drives me.&nbsp; Maybe Epic Living will wake people up so they will start their own businesses, or maybe teach them to pursue that medical career they left behind many years ago.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a reason why small and medium businesses are the fast growers.&nbsp; There&#8217;s a reason so many women (and other minorities) are leaving corporate America to pursue another way to do business.&nbsp; Look around you, is where you&#8217;re at a place you can make a difference?&nbsp; If you don&#8217;t make a difference, it doesn&#8217;t matter if you&#8217;re there or not. <\/p>\n<p>What are the reasons for taking the leap of faith?&nbsp; One certainly could be that some don&#8217;t want to find themselves alive but dead&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read a stat. this week (I think it came from the Conference Board) that said fifty percent of the workforce is dis-engaged.&nbsp; In other words they are the &quot;working dead.&quot;&nbsp; Fifty percent sounds astounding, but when companies are run by leaders who change dates on stock options, it makes total sense.&nbsp; What&#8217;s there 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-908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908","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=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}