{"id":971,"date":"2005-12-07T13:31:42","date_gmt":"2005-12-07T13:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/clearly_connect\/"},"modified":"2005-12-07T13:31:42","modified_gmt":"2005-12-07T13:31:42","slug":"clearly_connect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/clearly_connect\/","title":{"rendered":"Clearly Connected"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am a simple person in many aspects of life.  Leadership is one of those aspects.  <\/p>\n

I spoke with an associate yesterday, and asked her a simple question around what is the first thing a leader (one who leads people) must do?  Her answer was that a leader must first speak with clarity.  I agree with her…with emphasis.  Today, I asked her about the second thing, and she said a leader must connect.  How powerful and profound were her responses.<\/p>\n

If your a leader of people you can almost guarantee success if you do what my associate recommended.  The following outlines why:<\/p>\n

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  1. People will follow someone who can "paint" a picture of the who, the what and the why of the organization.<\/li>\n
  2. People want you to connect because they want to know that you REALLY want to know them, and care about who they are.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I am a simple person in many aspects of life.  Leadership is one of those aspects.  I spoke with an associate yesterday, and asked her a simple question around what is the first thing a leader (one who leads people) must do?  Her answer was that a leader must first speak with clarity.  I agree…<\/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-971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971","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=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}