{"id":1664,"date":"2014-04-24T01:28:14","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T06:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=1664"},"modified":"2014-03-31T08:34:52","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T13:34:52","slug":"the-bologna-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2014\/04\/the-bologna-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bologna Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;ve heard people in meetings tell me stuff that was just pure bologna. Then I had to ask myself why I created an environment where people told me bologna instead of the truth.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I once managed a project where an engineer stood in a meeting and explained that a hardware part had been &#8220;thermal stressed.&#8221; He tried to move on from that statement quickly, but I caught it and intervened.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t you mean that it burned to a crisp?&#8221; I asked.<\/p>\n<p>He admitted that is what he meant.<\/p>\n<p>His statement was pure bologna. It was creative and, for a while at least, humorous.<\/p>\n<p>Later, I felt badly. I was in charge. I created the environment. I was responsible for a situation where people felt the need to make up silly terms instead of telling the truth in a candid manner.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes it isn&#8217;t much fun to be in charge and to create the environment. People tend to slap you in the face, and sometimes that happens in a way that you don&#8217;t realize that they just slapped you in the face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips I&#8217;ve heard people in meetings tell me stuff that was just pure bologna. Then I had to ask myself why I created an environment where people told me bologna instead of the truth. I once managed a project where an engineer stood in a meeting and explained that a hardware part had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,9,25],"tags":[154,132,147],"class_list":["post-1664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-management","category-meetings","tag-communication","tag-management","tag-meetings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664","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=1664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1665,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions\/1665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}