{"id":1380,"date":"2009-11-24T09:38:32","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T16:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=1380"},"modified":"2016-06-28T14:21:07","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T21:21:07","slug":"the-worth-of-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2009\/11\/the-worth-of-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"the worth of truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Daps&amp;field-keywords=Execution%3A+The+Discipline+of+Getting+Things+Done\">Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done<\/a> and drooling over the world they describe. Larry and Ram are going on about developing bench strength and coaching their people talent.<\/p>\n<p>I did an informal poll and asked my friends if they&#8217;d ever been in a company that valued the people such that coaching and promotions were part of life. We know of this, like we know of unicorns. But do they exist? Doubtful.<\/p>\n<p>But that made me think. What if we could develop partnerships with teams who could assess us effectively&#8211;a kind of support group. Perhaps a group of people doing volunteer work with the idea in mind that honest and constructive feedback about strengths but MOSTLY weaknesses would happen at the end.<\/p>\n<p>Honesty is so rare and valuable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done and drooling over the world they describe. Larry and Ram are going on about developing bench strength and coaching their people talent. I did an informal poll and asked my friends if &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2009\/11\/the-worth-of-truth\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,10],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-1380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookworthy","category-my-day-job","tag-linkedin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4134,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions\/4134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}