by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now and then, something surfaces that is BIG and IMPORTANT. What was believed to be important in the past isn’t. Move on. Who, however, moves on?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Person A: Look what I found. This is important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Person B: What now?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Person A: No look. This is really important. This is the way we should go. This will change everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Person B: Okay, I see the merit. And …<\/p>\n\n\n\n Person A: Great. You see that this is far more important than what you wanted earlier. So you’ll drop that, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Person B: Uh, now what a moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Person A: Come on. You agree that this surpasses your old ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Person B: Yes, it does. It also surpasses your old ideas, right><\/p>\n\n\n\n Person A: Well, yes. It does. But <\/p>\n\n\n\n Person B: So how about you drop your old ideas, I keep my old ideas, and we combine my old ideas with this new idea that surpasses everything?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Person A: Well, I just assumed we would combine my old ideas with this new idea and …<\/p>\n\n\n\n Person B: Why not the other way around? We agree that this new idea surpasses both our old ideas. You won’t mind dropping your ideas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n At this point in the conversation, a third and wiser person enters the room and shows the loss of rational thought in Person A and Person B. It is a shame, however, that the third and wiser person rarely exists and walks into the room at just the right moment. It is left to Person A and Person B to resolve this. We can do this. Let’s do better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips Now and then, something surfaces that is BIG and IMPORTANT. What was believed to be important in the past isn’t. Move on. Who, however, moves on? Person A: Look what I found. This is important. Person B: What now? Person A: No look. This is really important. This is the way we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[449,394,105,286,269,45,63,43,316],"tags":[450,393,219,287,270,167,183,165,317],"class_list":["post-4687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agreement","category-alternatives","category-competence","category-conversation","category-decide","category-differences","category-expectations","category-ideas","category-improvement","tag-agreement","tag-alternatives","tag-competence","tag-conversation","tag-decide","tag-differences","tag-expectations","tag-ideas","tag-improvement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4687","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=4687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4688,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4687\/revisions\/4688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}