{"id":448,"date":"2012-10-30T09:25:19","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T17:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/?p=448"},"modified":"2012-10-30T09:25:19","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T17:25:19","slug":"the-difference-between-the-janitor-and-the-vice-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/30\/the-difference-between-the-janitor-and-the-vice-president\/","title":{"rendered":"The Difference Between the Janitor and the Vice President"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>[He] imagines his garbage regularly not being emptied in his office, and when he asks the janitor why, he gets an excuse: The locks have been changed, and the janitor doesn&#8217;t have a key. This is an acceptable excuse coming from someone who empties trash bins for a living. The janitor gets to explain why something went wrong. Senior people do not. &#8220;When you&#8217;re the janitor,&#8221; [he] has repeatedly told incoming VPs, &#8220;reasons matter.&#8221; He continues: &#8220;Somewhere between the janitor and the CEO, reasons stop mattering.&#8221; That &#8220;Rubicon,&#8221; he has said, &#8220;is crossed when you become a VP.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tech.fortune.cnn.com\/2011\/08\/25\/how-apple-works-inside-the-worlds-biggest-startup\/\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[He] imagines his garbage regularly not being emptied in his office, and when he asks the janitor why, he gets an excuse: The locks have been changed, and the janitor doesn&#8217;t have a key. This is an acceptable excuse coming from someone who empties trash bins for a living. The janitor gets to explain why &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/30\/the-difference-between-the-janitor-and-the-vice-president\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Difference Between the Janitor and the Vice President&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions\/449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}