{"id":838,"date":"2013-11-06T09:25:33","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T16:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickduffel.com\/?p=838"},"modified":"2013-11-06T09:25:33","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T16:25:33","slug":"making-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/?p=838","title":{"rendered":"Making progress?"},"content":{"rendered":"<body><p><\/p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nickduffel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/sign-oops.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-839\" alt=\"sign-oops\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nickduffel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/sign-oops.png?resize=300%2C199\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/a>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cProgress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turn, then to go forward does not get you any nearer.<\/p>\n<p>If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>-C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As a leader, I want to push forward. \u00a0I want to gain ground. \u00a0I can get addicted to progress for progress\u2019 sake. \u00a0Then I stop and look around and I realize this is not where I want to be. \u00a0This is not where I should have lead these people.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s embarrassing to admit I\u2019ve taken a wrong turn, and many leaders have too much pride to admit they are wrong.<\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t have time for this kind of insecure leadership. \u00a0Leaders, it\u2019s time to man up and make the <em>progressive<\/em> decision to get back on the right road. \u00a0Yes, you may have to utter the words, \u201cI was wrong.\u201d \u00a0If you want to lead on the edge, you should practice saying those words often.<\/p>\n<p>There is a silver lining: failure is one of the best\u2013and most consistent\u2013teachers out there. \u00a0Of course, you have to be willing to show up for class\u2026<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cProgress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turn, then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/?p=838\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Making progress?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[70,75,113,114,193],"class_list":["post-838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership-2","category-leadership-wednesday","tag-failure","tag-fear","tag-leaders","tag-leadership","tag-thoughts-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EHHr-dw","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}