{"id":961,"date":"2006-01-06T06:43:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-06T06:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/clarityagain\/"},"modified":"2006-01-06T06:43:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-06T06:43:00","slug":"clarityagain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/clarityagain\/","title":{"rendered":"What Churchill Taught Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This piece on <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB113633953789937127.html?mod=opinion&amp;ojcontent=otep\">Winston Churchill<\/a> illustrates (with some humor) the importance of clarity in leadership.&nbsp; Certainly the circumstances of war contributed to Churchill&#8217;s clear messages, but urgency is often summoned from within&#8230;regardless of the circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>Another interesting reality about Churchill was that he knew he didn&#8217;t have time to waste.&nbsp; Having Hitler breathing down your neck will do that.&nbsp; The attitude that prevails today is contrary to Churchill and his time.&nbsp; We feel that we do have time.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re planning on leading anyone or any organization to greatness, you must act swiftly.&nbsp; Know what you want and pursue the &quot;end.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This piece on Winston Churchill illustrates (with some humor) the importance of clarity in leadership.&nbsp; Certainly the circumstances of war contributed to Churchill&#8217;s clear messages, but urgency is often summoned from within&#8230;regardless of the circumstances. Another interesting reality about Churchill was that he knew he didn&#8217;t have time to waste.&nbsp; Having Hitler breathing down your&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-961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961","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=961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}