{"id":823,"date":"2011-05-26T01:44:54","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T06:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=823"},"modified":"2011-05-19T08:53:22","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T13:53:22","slug":"change-the-world-0-06-hello-my-name-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2011\/05\/change-the-world-0-06-hello-my-name-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Change the World &#8211; 0.06 &#8211; Hello, My Name is&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>Introduce yourself by name.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was sitting in a meeting that had started five minutes earlier. The person to my right was presiding over the meeting and was talking without pause. I recognized enough of what he was saying to know that I was in the right meeting, but I didn&#8217;t know anyone in the meeting. I had never seen any of them before, and I didn&#8217;t know any of their names.<\/p>\n<p>Something spurred me and I said something like, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know anyone here. Could we go around the table and introduce ourselves? My name is Dwayne Phillips.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The person presiding raised his eyes towards me, his eyebrows lifted several inches, and he exclaimed, &#8220;You&#8217;re Dwayne Phillips? I&#8217;ve been trying to contact you for weeks, but I couldn&#8217;t find you in any of our systems. I need to talk to you!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Our lives, the person presiding and me, changed in that moment. We worked together for the next ten years on various projects. All because I said,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My name is Dwayne Phillips.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Since that day I have repeated this little practice many times. It changes everything. I am not sure why, but I have seen it work well too many times to forget it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Introduce yourself by name. I was sitting in a meeting that had started five minutes earlier. The person to my right was presiding over the meeting and was talking without pause. I recognized enough of what he was saying to know that I was in the right meeting, but I didn&#8217;t know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,32],"tags":[143,154],"class_list":["post-823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-change","category-communication","tag-change","tag-communication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823","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=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":824,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions\/824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}