{"id":10,"date":"2008-01-15T21:57:28","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T02:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/?p=10"},"modified":"2008-01-15T22:03:49","modified_gmt":"2008-01-16T03:03:49","slug":"on-two-fundamentally-different-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/2008\/01\/15\/on-two-fundamentally-different-views\/","title":{"rendered":"On Two Fundamentally Different Views"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><em>&#8220;You think slavery is right and should be extended; while we think slavery is wrong and ought to be restricted. That I suppose is the rub. It certainly is the only substantial difference between us.&#8221; \u2013Abraham Lincoln.<\/em><\/font>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What happens when you have two fundamentally different views on the same subject which both are ultimately right? For instance, Jack Welch (Neutron Jack) is considered in some circles as one of the greatest CEO\u2019s ever, and in others as the Worst CEO to ever walk the planet.\u00a0\u00a0 His method, fire people until you get the right people, works.\u00a0\u00a0 Also, the method of people engagement, where you convince people to work better, smarter and for you, has also proved effective, aka Charlotte Beers, CEO of Ogilvy (among others) .\u00a0 Don\u2019t know the names, let this then be a Google lesson.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What have I learned then?\u00a0 What does this all mean? Find your own speed, then find where you belong. Give it six months and if you have not made a single impact \u2013good or bad- move on.\u00a0\u00a0 There is nothing you can do there.\u00a0 More time has been wasted doing the semi wrong thing, than the total right thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You think slavery is right and should be extended; while we think slavery is wrong and ought to be restricted. That I suppose is the rub. It certainly is the only substantial difference between us.&#8221; \u2013Abraham Lincoln.\u00a0 What happens when you have two fundamentally different views on the same subject which both are ultimately right? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[13,14],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","tag-ceo","tag-views"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}