{"id":3776,"date":"2022-12-01T01:35:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T06:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=3776"},"modified":"2022-11-13T07:41:40","modified_gmt":"2022-11-13T12:41:40","slug":"we-dont-need-to-do-that-yes-we-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2022\/12\/we-dont-need-to-do-that-yes-we-do\/","title":{"rendered":"We Don&#8217;t Need to Do That (yes, we do)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>We aren&#8217;t as smart as we assume. Sometimes we need to do the simple things first before we move forward.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Can we introduce ourselves before we start?&#8221; I asked at a meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;No, we know each other here,&#8221; said the person presiding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We introduced ourselves first. The person presiding was thrilled to know that I was Dwayne Phillips. He had been trying for weeks to contact me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We introduced ourselves first. We didn&#8217;t know as much as we thought we knew. Learning what we didn&#8217;t know was a major breakthrough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sometimes we need to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>introduce ourselves<\/li><li>draw something on the white board<\/li><li>hand out paper materials<\/li><li>use name placards on the table<\/li><li>give each other business cards with contact information<\/li><li>explain the obvious things<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The list could go on. &#8220;We&#8217;ve got this, we don&#8217;t need to&#8230;&#8221; Perhaps that list of things we don&#8217;t need to do are the things that we absolutely must do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips We aren&#8217;t as smart as we assume. Sometimes we need to do the simple things first before we move forward. &#8220;Can we introduce ourselves before we start?&#8221; I asked at a meeting. &#8220;No, we know each other here,&#8221; said the person presiding. We introduced ourselves first. The person presiding was thrilled to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[271,25,340,292],"tags":[272,147,342,295],"class_list":["post-3776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jobs","category-meetings","category-simple","category-tools","tag-jobs","tag-meetings","tag-simple","tag-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3776","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=3776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3777,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3776\/revisions\/3777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}