{"id":980,"date":"2005-11-18T12:56:47","date_gmt":"2005-11-18T12:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/what_could_be\/"},"modified":"2005-11-18T12:56:47","modified_gmt":"2005-11-18T12:56:47","slug":"what_could_be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/what_could_be\/","title":{"rendered":"What Could Be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"MS Reference Sans Serif\">I heard a leader (I believe it was Marcus Buckingham) once say that \u201cwhat can be, is more important than what is.\u201d<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>I think he also said that this is the place that quality leaders live.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Count on this, it can be a lonely place\u2026the unknown, the unseen.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Quality leaders are compelled to go to this place.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>It seems like they are \u201chard-wired\u201d for this type of journey.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"MS Reference Sans Serif\">A friend once told me that children that are born with this are targets of the \u201cdark side.\u201d<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>He said that these are the ones who must be taken out early.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Obviously, my friend has a very vivid imagination.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>But I agree with him. Think about the many schools and corporations who choke out vision.&nbsp; Ask someone you know (or don&#8217;t know) to cast vision around their work, life, family, etc&#8230;&nbsp; Do they hesitate?&nbsp; Do they seem awkward?&nbsp; The response will be telling.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard a leader (I believe it was Marcus Buckingham) once say that \u201cwhat can be, is more important than what is.\u201d&nbsp; I think he also said that this is the place that quality leaders live.&nbsp; Count on this, it can be a lonely place\u2026the unknown, the unseen.&nbsp; Quality leaders are compelled to go to&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-980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980","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=980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}