{"id":2404,"date":"2013-07-25T11:00:32","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T10:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/?p=2404"},"modified":"2013-07-22T09:35:18","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T08:35:18","slug":"are-we-sailing-we-are-sailing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/are-we-sailing-we-are-sailing\/","title":{"rendered":"Are we sailing&#8230;.we are sailing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sailing as a metaphor for our lives and work and organisations came up twice recently\u2026<br \/>\nFirst from a mate who has been learning to sail: \u201cit is a nice metaphor &#8211; you are at the mercy of the wind, with a degree of choice and skill mixed in\u201d<br \/>\nAnd second, remembering some work 10 years ago on a Journey Planner (<a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourfutures.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/11_July_Futures_Testing_Record.pdf \" rel=\"nofollow\">a large table top diagram \u2013 see p 10 and 11 here<\/a>) for a more recent example that took sailing as its metaphor: We may know our ultimate destination and desired direction. Whilst we need to be focused on our overall vision and ultimate goal at all times we must also be prepared to continually adjust and amend what we are doing minute by minute and day by day as we tack and turn due to the changing circumstances around us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sailing as a metaphor for our lives and work and organisations came up twice recently\u2026 First from a mate who has been learning to sail: \u201cit is a nice metaphor &#8211; you are at the mercy of the wind, with a degree of choice and skill mixed in\u201d And second, remembering some work 10 years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[136],"tags":[107,43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2404"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2409,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404\/revisions\/2409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}