{"id":1354,"date":"2021-02-04T06:06:15","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T14:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rulenumbersix.ca\/?p=1354"},"modified":"2021-02-07T09:47:43","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T17:47:43","slug":"avoiding-folly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/blog\/avoiding-folly\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoiding Folly"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1354\" class=\"elementor elementor-1354\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-ffd671d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"ffd671d\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-c5b9dcc\" data-id=\"c5b9dcc\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-49975ce elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"49975ce\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"\" data-pm-slice=\"0 0 []\">We seldom give awards for avoiding folly, but it can be just as critical to success as being brilliant.<\/p><p class=\"\">When we focus on being brilliant, we often ask ourselves questions like, \u201cHow can I help my team or organization?\u201d These types of questions centre on identifying contributions and putting pressure on ourselves to deliver.<\/p><p class=\"\">When we focus on avoiding folly, we ask ourselves questions like, \u201cWhat\u2019s hurting my team or organization the most and how can we avoid it?\u201d These types of questions centre on identifying obvious failure points so they can be addressed or avoided. They relieve pressure for teams and organizations.<\/p><p class=\"\">While we might not be celebrated for avoiding folly, doing so is crucial to forward motion . At times, avoiding folly can be even more valuable than being brilliant and it&#8217;s often easier to achieve if we adopt the practice of noticing hazards.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We seldom give awards for avoiding folly, but it can be just as critical to success as being brilliant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1356,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-innovation","category-leadership","category-problem-solving"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Avoiding-Folly.jpg?fit=1200%2C630&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1354"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1359,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions\/1359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}