{"id":300,"date":"2013-04-03T11:49:17","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T11:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/blog\/?p=300"},"modified":"2013-04-03T11:49:17","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T11:49:17","slug":"its-not-often-we-think-seths-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/blog\/its-not-often-we-think-seths-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s not often we think Seth&#8217;s wrong&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; but I think he misses the mark here:\u00a0<a title=\"Seth's blog\" href=\"http:\/\/sethgodin.typepad.com\/seths_blog\/2013\/04\/a-field-guide-to-the-meeting-troll.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/sethgodin.typepad.com\/seths_blog\/2013\/04\/a-field-guide-to-the-meeting-troll.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I know plenty of people who&#8217;re negative at meetings for the sake of it, but just being negative isn&#8217;t a sin. Looking at the details isn&#8217;t a sin. Checking out what could go wrong isn&#8217;t a sin. Looking at the worst case scenario isn&#8217;t a sin.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just different&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s often very handy to have this kind of person in your meetings&#8230; they stop people like me from making decisions without thinking through the possible consequences, of shooting from the hip.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, so being negative just because you can is frustrating for the rest of the people around the table, but it&#8217;s not a hanging offence! \u00a0And often being nit-picky is handy! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; but I think he misses the mark here:\u00a0http:\/\/sethgodin.typepad.com\/seths_blog\/2013\/04\/a-field-guide-to-the-meeting-troll.html I know plenty of people who&#8217;re negative at meetings for the sake of it, but just being negative isn&#8217;t a sin. Looking at the details isn&#8217;t a sin. Checking out what could go wrong isn&#8217;t a sin. Looking at the worst case scenario isn&#8217;t a sin. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-thoughts","category-myths-and-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}