{"id":1357,"date":"2013-03-21T01:46:30","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T06:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=1357"},"modified":"2013-03-11T07:52:14","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T12:52:14","slug":"the-oh-yeah-writing-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2013\/03\/the-oh-yeah-writing-test\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Oh Yeah?&#8221; Writing Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>When writing management tips, I always try to apply the &#8220;Oh Yeah?&#8221; test.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I sometimes write about management and how to manage better. One things I try to apply at the end of such writing is the &#8220;Oh Yeah?&#8221; test. In applying this test, I ask myself something like,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Oh yeah? Really, smart guy? If this works so well why isn&#8217;t everyone in  the world using it and why isn&#8217;t the world spinning on its axis so much better than  it is now?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I then try to explain why such wonderful techniques don&#8217;t always, or is it usually or it is never, work. Of course, I can apply the &#8220;Oh Yeah?&#8221; test to this little bit of advice.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Oh yeah? Really, smart guy? If the &#8220;Oh Yeah?&#8221; test works so well, why don&#8217;t millions of people read your management tips and follow them?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rats. I don&#8217;t always have good answers to the &#8220;Oh Yeah?&#8221; test. Still, it is a pretty good test.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Answer the critics before they ask.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips When writing management tips, I always try to apply the &#8220;Oh Yeah?&#8221; test. I sometimes write about management and how to manage better. One things I try to apply at the end of such writing is the &#8220;Oh Yeah?&#8221; test. In applying this test, I ask myself something like, Oh yeah? Really, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,9,5],"tags":[154,132,128],"class_list":["post-1357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-management","category-writing","tag-communication","tag-management","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357","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=1357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1358,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions\/1358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}