by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n
Persons in special positions have few people who will talk to them. The result is a problem.<\/strong><\/p>\n Leaders occupy special positions. One result is that persons view the leader as a thing: a Vice President of such-and-such, a Director of this-or-that. Persons speak to things in a different and usually less-helpful manner than they speak to other persons.<\/p>\n If you are in a position of power, real or imagined, people treat you differently.<\/p>\n That is life, get over it<\/p>\n If you are in such a position, spending time with other people is more important than ever. Don\u2019t think you have the time? Get over that one, too.<\/p>\n If you are in such a position, you need the perspective of others more than ever.<\/p>\n Some persons are smarter than everyone else. Their lone idea is better than all the ideas created by the brain-storming masses. The trouble is, you aren’t one of those smarter persons and neither am I. Get over that one, too. Admit the frailties of reality; admit the isolation of leadership. Make the time and space to talk with persons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips Persons in special positions have few people who will talk to them. The result is a problem. Leaders occupy special positions. One result is that persons view the leader as a thing: a Vice President of such-and-such, a Director of this-or-that. Persons speak to things in a different and usually less-helpful manner […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[132],"class_list":["post-2076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-management","tag-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076","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=2076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2077,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076\/revisions\/2077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}