{"id":2221,"date":"2016-07-11T01:40:22","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T06:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=2221"},"modified":"2016-06-20T08:00:55","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T13:00:55","slug":"the-great-value-of-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2016\/07\/the-great-value-of-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Value of Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>This isn&#8217;t politics, it is groups of people endeavoring to accomplish something. Give them a gift\u2014policies.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A policy is one of the best gifts upper managers can give to an organization. No, I&#8217;m not kidding. We have to understand what a policy is and how we use it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A policy is a statement that helps everyone decide things everyday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here are some example policies:Fewer, better people<\/p>\n<ul>Software that we can move to other environmentsDecide nowOnly decide today what we need todayMake the user&#8217;s job easier, not your own<\/ul>\n<p>Make these short, simple statements. Put them on the walls. When anyone needs to decide anything, they glance at the wall and use the policy to guide them.This isn&#8217;t complicated. This works. Try it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips This isn&#8217;t politics, it is groups of people endeavoring to accomplish something. Give them a gift\u2014policies. A policy is one of the best gifts upper managers can give to an organization. No, I&#8217;m not kidding. We have to understand what a policy is and how we use it. A policy is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,63,9],"tags":[154,183,132],"class_list":["post-2221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-expectations","category-management","tag-communication","tag-expectations","tag-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221","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=2221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2222,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221\/revisions\/2222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}