{"id":29,"date":"2006-03-05T08:26:48","date_gmt":"2006-03-05T08:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/2006\/03\/05\/memories\/"},"modified":"2006-03-05T08:26:48","modified_gmt":"2006-03-05T08:26:48","slug":"memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/archives\/memories.html","title":{"rendered":"Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember way back when, when you could walk over to the cube next to you, talk to your buddy, argue\/agree\/argue\/agree, and then you would walk back to your own cube and just build it?<br \/>\nRemember when you didn&#8217;t have to fill out forms, or get approval from upper management?<br \/>\nRemember when you didn&#8217;t have to write a 1000 page spec just to describe what it was you wanted to build, but instead just hashed it out on a white board and put a &#8220;Do not Erase&#8221; message on it until the project was done?<br \/>\nRemember when you didn&#8217;t have to notify 200 people just to start something, and then get their OK before you could launch?<br \/>\nJust when did we transition from  &#8220;Just Do It&#8221; to &#8220;Just Talk About It Until Your Head Bursts but Never Really Get to Doing It&#8221;?  Or &#8220;Just Quit Now Because It&#8217;s Too Hard to Get to Doing It?&#8221;<br \/>\nToo many levels of management.  Too much bureaucracy.  Too much distrust.  Too much emphasis on individual posturing and positioning and not enough on getting the job done.<br \/>\nAre all companies fated to reach this point as they grow to mammoth proportions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember way back when, when you could walk over to the cube next to you, talk to your buddy, argue\/agree\/argue\/agree, and then you would walk back to your own cube and just build it? Remember when you didn&#8217;t have to fill out forms, or get approval from upper management? Remember when you didn&#8217;t have to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}