{"id":928,"date":"2006-04-03T08:13:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-03T08:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/the_greed_effec\/"},"modified":"2006-04-03T08:13:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-03T08:13:00","slug":"the_greed_effec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/the_greed_effec\/","title":{"rendered":"The Greed Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/msnbc.msn.com\/id\/12105552\/\">story<\/a> regarding Jack Abramhoff and company, reveals a lot about greed and power.&nbsp; As you think about these men (mostly younger), you can&#8217;t help but wonder whether someone set them down to talk about the dangers of greed.&nbsp; The reality is that most are never talked to, or better yet mentored on these issues.&nbsp; That&#8217;s why we&#8217;ve (Epic Living) included greed and power into our leadership development program.<\/p>\n<p>How do you expect to handle something you&#8217;ve never been trained or advised in?&nbsp; More than likely you will fail at anything you&#8217;ve never been taught in.&nbsp; We are a nation focused on getting, not growing.&nbsp; If we&#8217;d slow down a minute we&#8217;d learn that we get as we grow.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve never considered greed and power, then I would seek out someone to help you get a handle on it.&nbsp; Leaving this in the dust could ruin your life (see the story above on Tom Delay and Jack Abramhoff).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story regarding Jack Abramhoff and company, reveals a lot about greed and power.&nbsp; As you think about these men (mostly younger), you can&#8217;t help but wonder whether someone set them down to talk about the dangers of greed.&nbsp; The reality is that most are never talked to, or better yet mentored on these issues.&nbsp;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928","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=928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}