{"id":7625,"date":"2017-09-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/business\/great-storytelling-connects-employees-to-their-work\/"},"modified":"2017-09-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T05:00:00","slug":"great-storytelling-connects-employees-to-their-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/business\/great-storytelling-connects-employees-to-their-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Storytelling Connects Employees to Their Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The first responsibility of leaders \u0097 whether front line supervisors, middle managers, or executives \u0097 is to compensate for the inevitable alienation that complex organizations create, and provide employees with a visceral connection to the human purpose they serve. &#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-controls=\"0\" data-card-align=\"center\" data-card-theme=\"light\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2017\/09\/great-storytelling-connects-employees-to-their-work\">Great Storytelling Connects Employees to Their Work<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Executive Summary Let&#8217;s face it. Most of us go through the motions, phoning it in, but engage in our work less than we are capable of. The consequence is not just lower productivity; it is lower quality of life. Half-hearted effort isn&#8217;t fun.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The first responsibility of leaders \u0097 whether front line supervisors, middle managers, or executives \u0097 is to compensate for the inevitable alienation that complex organizations create, and provide employees with a visceral connection to the human purpose they serve. &#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/hbr.org\/resources\/images\/article_assets\/2017\/09\/sept17-21-680991536.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[43,45,42],"class_list":{"0":"post-7625","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-engagement","9":"tag-leadership","10":"tag-wellbeing"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}