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{"id":556,"date":"2013-02-27T14:35:33","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T14:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/?p=556"},"modified":"2013-02-27T16:10:03","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T16:10:03","slug":"61-sense-of-urgency-versus-life-and-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/?p=556","title":{"rendered":"#61 &#8220;Sense of urgency&#8221; versus &#8220;Life and Death&#8221;"},"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>These are not the same. But you knew that.<\/p>\n<p>Then why do you and your co-workers not get it right? Meaning, why do you behave as if every situation is &#8221; life and death&#8221; when it is merely &#8220;urgent.&#8221; Okay, maybe not &#8220;merely,&#8221; but you get the point.<\/p>\n<p>The first reason is &#8220;you don&#8217;t know!&#8221; Develop your awareness. Improve your analysis and analytics. Get your facts right on business impact before you commit to an opinion or action. It&#8217;s okay to trust your gut, provided you have a handle on your emotions.<\/p>\n<p>A second reason is &#8220;fear.&#8221; Self awareness will fix a certain percentage of your fear (&#8220;see, no ghosts under the bed&#8221;). Some percentage of your fear may require therapy and counseling. The rest of your fear can be overcome with coaching, and education. thus, be open to feedback and be &#8220;coachable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Start with getting the difference right. Once you can tell the difference, the rest will follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are not the same. But you knew that. Then why do you and your co-workers not get it right? Meaning, why do you behave as if every situation is &#8221; life and death&#8221; when it is merely &#8220;urgent.&#8221; Okay, maybe not &#8220;merely,&#8221; but you get the point. The first reason is &#8220;you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[19,12,13,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556"}],"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=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":595,"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions\/595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}