{"id":1418,"date":"2013-06-10T01:05:15","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T06:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=1418"},"modified":"2013-05-27T06:15:33","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T11:15:33","slug":"a-meager-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2013\/06\/a-meager-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"A Meager Goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>When starting an endeavor that seeks the educate and spread information, here is a meager goal &#8211; don&#8217;t make the people less interested in the topic.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Consultant and author <a href=\"http:\/\/geraldmweinberg.com\/Site\/Home.html\">Jerry Weinberg<\/a> taught this one to me. It is his goal when teaching a class or seminar. At the end, he wants to ask, &#8220;Are the people less interested in the subject?&#8221; If the answer is, &#8220;no,&#8221; he has succeeded.<\/p>\n<p>That is a meager goal. It stems from the old medical goal of, &#8220;do no harm&#8221; or &#8220;don&#8217;t make the patient any sicker.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I find this meager goal to be applicable to many endeavors.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A producer makes a movie and puts it in theaters. When people watch the movie do they walk away thinking, &#8220;I will never spend a nickel on another movie in my live! Movies are terrible!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>A band gives a performance. Do the concert attenders walk away thinking, &#8220;I will never attend another concert again! They are terrible!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>I write a book instructing people how to use fill-in-the-blank-with-a-management-technique. Will the readers toss the book in the trash and say, &#8220;I&#8217;ll never try that technique!&#8221; or &#8220;I&#8217;ll never read another management book!&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of course, I have to ask the same question about this blog post. After reading it, will people say:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;ll never read another blog post again.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ll never read anything that Dwayne writes again.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ll never ask the meager question posed in this post.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And so on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Hmm, maybe this isn&#8217;t so much of a meager goal after all. Maybe it is a high standard that I&#8217;ll struggle to achieve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips When starting an endeavor that seeks the educate and spread information, here is a meager goal &#8211; don&#8217;t make the people less interested in the topic. Consultant and author Jerry Weinberg taught this one to me. It is his goal when teaching a class or seminar. At the end, he wants to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,90],"tags":[154,207],"class_list":["post-1418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-education","tag-communication","tag-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418","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=1418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1419,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions\/1419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}