{"id":305,"date":"2011-01-13T04:00:01","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T08:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/?p=305"},"modified":"2010-12-31T19:55:24","modified_gmt":"2010-12-31T23:55:24","slug":"without-a-goal-nothing-happens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/13\/without-a-goal-nothing-happens\/","title":{"rendered":"Without a goal, nothing happens."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NFL Referee Jim Tunney says: <em>\u201cIf employees don\u2019t understand their company\u2019s goals and its game plan, these goals won\u2019t be achieved,\u201d he says. \u201cFootball doesn\u2019t make this mistake. Its goals are always clearly defined. At the end of the field is a goal line. Why do we call it a goal line? Because 11 people on the offensive team huddle for a single purpose\u2014to move the ball across it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What is the single purpose for the team you lead? How will\u00a0they know when\u00a0they&#8217;ve achieved the goal?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe that&#8217;s why they aren&#8217;t achieving more. Just a thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NFL Referee Jim Tunney says: \u201cIf employees don\u2019t understand their company\u2019s goals and its game plan, these goals won\u2019t be achieved,\u201d he says. \u201cFootball doesn\u2019t make this mistake. Its goals are always clearly defined. At the end of the field is a goal line. Why do we call it a goal line? Because 11 people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[33,15],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-achievement","tag-success"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1248,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions\/1248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}