{"id":2860,"date":"2019-04-04T01:01:12","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T06:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=2860"},"modified":"2019-03-16T08:13:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-16T13:13:01","slug":"rejoice-when-the-minions-revolt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2019\/04\/rejoice-when-the-minions-revolt\/","title":{"rendered":"Rejoice when the Minions Revolt!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Those who are supposed to do what I say are revolting. Rejoice. I have succeeded beyond my wildest dreams.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I was 21, I was clueless at work. I had no idea what I was doing or was supposed to do when I walked in the building in the morning. These older folks were there. They knew what they were doing. They understood things that I didn&#8217;t know existed. Please, tell me what to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I was 41, I was an expert. And that isn&#8217;t being arrogant. I had written several books and spoken at several conferences and I did know what I was doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Leaders had led me and taught me and\u2014most importantly\u2014taught me to learn constantly. They had pulled, pushed, twisted, and every-other-thing they could do to move me from the minion phase to the expert phase and &#8230; revolt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Are your minions revolting? Congratulations. You&#8217;ve done your job and done it well. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Those who are supposed to do what I say are revolting. Rejoice. I have succeeded beyond my wildest dreams. When I was 21, I was clueless at work. I had no idea what I was doing or was supposed to do when I walked in the building in the morning. These older [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[316,281,20,9,102],"tags":[317,282,142,132,217],"class_list":["post-2860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-improvement","category-influence","category-learning","category-management","category-teaching","tag-improvement","tag-influence","tag-learning","tag-management","tag-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2860","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=2860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2861,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2860\/revisions\/2861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}