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{"id":1609,"date":"2013-08-01T14:50:13","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T14:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/?p=1609"},"modified":"2013-08-14T14:54:58","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T14:54:58","slug":"216-whats-trending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/?p=1609","title":{"rendered":"#216 What&#8217;s trending?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='kindleWidget kindleLight' ><img src=\"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/send-to-kindle\/media\/white-25.png\" \/><span>Send to Kindle<\/span><\/div><p>With all the social media hype, monitoring of &#8220;what&#8217;s hot&#8221; is becoming a pastime, as well as essential for job security (especially for marketers). The notion is simple, align or link your message to what&#8217;s trending and it will get noticed.<\/p>\n<p>However, rock solid execution requires staying away from trends and yo-yo strategies. It requires a disciplined focused on your vision, mission, strategic choices, and values. Building capabilities is hard work and requires dedication.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t ignore the hype, just don&#8217;t get carried away by it. Use it to assess opportunities and threats, but stick to your plan, until you decide to change the plan.<\/p>\n<p>For example, don&#8217;t take up a job, don&#8217;t invest your money, and don&#8217;t adopt &#8220;big data&#8221; just because everyone is saying you should. Do it because it makes sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all the social media hype, monitoring of &#8220;what&#8217;s hot&#8221; is becoming a pastime, as well as essential for job security (especially for marketers). The notion is simple, align or link your message to what&#8217;s trending and it will get noticed. However, rock solid execution requires staying away from trends and yo-yo strategies. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[19,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1609"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1611,"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions\/1611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}