{"id":1240,"date":"2012-10-25T01:16:40","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T06:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=1240"},"modified":"2012-10-23T05:27:15","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T10:27:15","slug":"we-need-more-pegafos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2012\/10\/we-need-more-pegafos\/","title":{"rendered":"We Need More PeGAFOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>More often I find myself needing help from a person who is good at figuring out stuff. A PeGAFOS.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have simple needs at work. I need a person good at figuring out stuff. Someone who can consider a puzzling situation and figure out how to work our way out of the puzzle. A colleague named Roy O&#8217;Bryan (<a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/It-Sounded-Good-When-We-Started\/Dwayne-Phillips\/e\/9780471485865\">see our book here<\/a>) would often tell me, &#8220;Let&#8217;s see if they can figure out this one.&#8221; I would often reply with, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know if they have any good figure-ers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Excuse all my bad grammar. I suppose the proper term for this type of person is an analyst. Someone who can analyze a situation, understand the fundamental issues, and plan a way through those issues.<\/p>\n<p>I like the &#8220;figure out&#8221; term better than &#8220;analyst.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The PeGAFOS sounds like a name for a dinosaur. Perhaps these PeGAFOS are dinosaurs in that they are extinct or nearly so. It is hard to find these good figure-er out-ers. Perhaps it isn&#8217;t so hard. Perhaps it is just hard to recognize their talents and employ them as we often don&#8217;t really want to work our way out of our puzzling situations. The puzzling situations are a good excuse for what ails us. That, however, is a different subject for a different day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips More often I find myself needing help from a person who is good at figuring out stuff. A PeGAFOS. I have simple needs at work. I need a person good at figuring out stuff. Someone who can consider a puzzling situation and figure out how to work our way out of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,48,43,10],"tags":[190,170,165,133],"class_list":["post-1240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excuses","category-general-systems-thinking","category-ideas","category-people","tag-excuses","tag-general-systems-thinking","tag-ideas","tag-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1241,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions\/1241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}