{"id":4967,"date":"2006-05-11T13:05:19","date_gmt":"2006-05-11T13:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4967"},"modified":"2006-05-11T13:05:19","modified_gmt":"2006-05-11T13:05:19","slug":"leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4967","title":{"rendered":"leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"

At a meeting yesterday, I said, “Leadership is choosing which pressure to cave to.” I’ve had this thought for several years, although I’m not sure whether I made it up or borrowed it from someone. In either case, it was received as a scrap of wisdom, so I pass it on here.<\/p>\n

The corollary: To get what you want, organize people to put pressure on you that you want to cave to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At a meeting yesterday, I said, “Leadership is choosing which pressure to cave to.” I’ve had this thought for several years, although I’m not sure whether I made it up or borrowed it from someone. In either case, it was received as a scrap of wisdom, so I pass it on here. The corollary: To […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}