{"id":14932,"date":"2019-05-29T10:20:58","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T10:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icebreakerexecutive.com\/?p=14932"},"modified":"2019-05-29T10:20:58","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T10:20:58","slug":"the-hidden-business-bear-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/?p=14932","title":{"rendered":"The Hidden Business Bear Trap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"ember4671\" class=\"ember-view\">The Hidden Business Bear Trap: Yesterday I met with an incredibly successful executive at an FTSE 30 client. (in the context that 85% of their employees are disengaged) she said something quite worrying: that they are now so busy and stressed that they don&#8217;t respond at all or at best very slowly to new solutions. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"ember4671\" class=\"ember-view\">That said, I felt fortunate that she requested a way forwards, and push it with her exec team but&#8230; Shutting down options is a sure way to destroy value. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"ember4671\" class=\"ember-view\">I think this is one element that shows the quiet crisis that is creeping up on businesses: that the organisations and people in them are beginning not to be able to cope. <\/span><a id=\"ember4675\" class=\"feed-shared-text-view__hyperlink ember-view\" href=\"https:\/\/www.winningthinking.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.winningthinking.uk<\/a><span id=\"ember4679\" class=\"ember-view\"> breaks this cycle by opening the options, create the time to act get out and stay out of this bear trap. I wish you a bear trap free day \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hidden Business Bear Trap: Yesterday I met with an  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}