{"id":317,"date":"2013-07-17T19:43:15","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T19:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dmgsouth.com\/new\/?p=317"},"modified":"2013-07-17T21:04:05","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T21:04:05","slug":"this-article-is-close-but-its-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dmgsouth.com\/new\/2013\/07\/this-article-is-close-but-its-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"This article is close, but it&#8217;s wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure how I ended up on the inc.com website today? \u00a0I guess it really doesn&#8217;t matter. \u00a0The article had a great title<br \/>\n&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.inc.com\/les-mckeown\/the-most-powerful-20-words-in-business.html?nav=pop\">The 20 Most Powerful Words in Business<\/a>&#8221; I&#8217;ll save you the time discovering what the misguided statement is<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;When working in a team or group environment, I will place the interests of the enterprise above my personal interests.&#8221;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dmgsouth.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/BusinessManInChains.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-321 alignright\" style=\"margin: 7px;\" alt=\"BusinessManInChains\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dmgsouth.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/BusinessManInChains-200x300.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dmgsouth.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/BusinessManInChains-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.dmgsouth.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/BusinessManInChains.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It sounds good at first, but lets just do a couple of tests. I want a drink of water, no put the interests of the enterprise first, I&#8217;ll just go thirsty. I want to go home and see my family, no put the interests of the enterprise first, you will stay at work, maybe sleep at work.<\/p>\n<p>What companies need to do is align the personal interests of the employees with company interests. \u00a0This is where the power comes from. \u00a0I have seen this time and time again. \u00a0I have personally modified work environments to reflect this strategy with amazing results. \u00a0Every time productivity is doubled and profits climb significantly. \u00a0 In one instance it increased profit by over $1,000,000 annually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure how I ended up on the inc.com website today? \u00a0I guess it really doesn&#8217;t matter. \u00a0The article had a great title &#8220;The 20 Most Powerful Words in Business&#8221; I&#8217;ll save you the time discovering what the misguided statement is &#8220;When working in a team or group environment, I will place the interests&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmgsouth.com\/new\/2013\/07\/this-article-is-close-but-its-wrong\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice","category-daily-prosperity","category-owner-thinking"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmgsouth.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmgsouth.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmgsouth.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmgsouth.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmgsouth.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmgsouth.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmgsouth.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions\/322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmgsouth.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmgsouth.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmgsouth.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}