{"id":283,"date":"2020-10-12T01:59:16","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T06:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=283"},"modified":"2020-10-02T18:24:50","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T23:24:50","slug":"taking-a-step-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2020\/10\/taking-a-step-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking a Step Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>You have met with a group of smart persons. You all worked hard. You decided what to do. Now, do you do it or&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You gathered with a group of smart persons and worked hard. Discussion, question, discussion, alternative, question, answer, do it all over again.<\/p>\n<p>Decision.<\/p>\n<p>How do you take a step back to examine the decision before announcing it?<\/p>\n<p>Bring in an outside consultant? Take a five-minute walk around the block? Count to ten? Ask your mother? Ask your wife? Ask anyone who wasn&#8217;t sitting in the five-hour excruciatingly painful meeting where you decided?<\/p>\n<p>Do you <em>intend<\/em> to do what you say you will do? <em>Can<\/em> you do what you say you will do? Have you planned the doing? What will it mean if you say one thing and do another?<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is at this point that the blog post writer writes a few brilliant things to answer all these questions. Let&#8217;s go with a couple more questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>If you do what you decided and it doesn&#8217;t work, how much will that cost?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>If you don&#8217;t do what you decided, how much will that cost?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Compare the costs. And consider that &#8220;cost&#8221; does not necessarily mean money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips You have met with a group of smart persons. You all worked hard. You decided what to do. Now, do you do it or&#8230; You gathered with a group of smart persons and worked hard. Discussion, question, discussion, alternative, question, answer, do it all over again. Decision. How do you take 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":[269,320],"tags":[270,321],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decide","category-review","tag-decide","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","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=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3237,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/3237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}