{"id":86,"date":"2006-09-15T16:43:22","date_gmt":"2006-09-15T21:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2006\/09\/15\/day-three-at-barefoot8217s-resort8212-gonna-try-with-a-little-help-from-my-friends\/"},"modified":"2007-05-27T22:45:58","modified_gmt":"2007-05-28T02:45:58","slug":"day-three-at-barefoot8217s-resort8212-gonna-try-with-a-little-help-from-my-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/86","title":{"rendered":"Day Three at Barefoot\u2019s Resort\u2014 Gonna try with a little help from my friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I overheard Mike and Bob discussing sales goals, Mike said something so clear and plain-spoken that it hit my brain like a laser&#8212; &#8220;First you set an objective, and then you devise the strategy and tactics to achieve it.&#8221; I realized how reactive I&#8217;ve been in my professional life, rather than proactive. Mike knows what he&#8217;s talking about. After years as a leading sales executive for M&amp;M\/Mars, he now works directly with the owner of a top food distributor in the Midwest. We talked a lot today while Bill, JD, and Bob were out fishing. I know I can learn a lot from Mike if I open up. He&#8217;ll be more than pleased to give me advice, but do I have the discipline to use it? During a 90-minute phone call with Dana we confirmed the do-or-die aspect of what we face together, and the need for total open-mindedness in our problem solving, to turn the situation with our studio around. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I overheard Mike and Bob discussing sales goals, Mike said something so clear and plain-spoken that it hit my brain like a laser&#8212; &#8220;First you set an objective, and then you devise the strategy and tactics to achieve it.&#8221; I realized how reactive I&#8217;ve been in my professional life, rather than proactive. Mike knows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}