{"id":93,"date":"2007-07-03T18:56:32","date_gmt":"2007-07-03T17:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/progmanager.wordpress.com\/2007\/07\/03\/twas-ever-thus\/"},"modified":"2007-07-03T18:56:32","modified_gmt":"2007-07-03T17:56:32","slug":"twas-ever-thus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2007\/07\/03\/twas-ever-thus\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Twas Ever Thus&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/progmanager.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/07\/ripplesweb.jpg\" title=\"ripplesweb.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/progmanager.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/07\/ripplesweb.jpg\" alt=\"ripplesweb.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\u201c<em>First organise the near at hand, then organise the far removed.<br \/>\nFirst organise the inner, then organise the outer.<br \/>\nFirst organise the basic, then organise the derivative<br \/>\nFirst organise the strong, then organise the weak.<br \/>\nFirst organise the great, then organise the small.<br \/>\n<strong> First organise yourself, then organise others\u201d.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">General Zhuge Liang<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Zhuge Liang (181 &#8211; 234) was one of the greatest Chinese strategists, as well as a statesman, engineer, scholar, and inventor. 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First organise the inner, then organise the outer. First organise the basic, then organise the derivative First organise the strong, then organise the weak. First organise the great, then organise the small. First organise yourself, then organise others\u201d. General Zhuge Liang Zhuge Liang (181 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[33,46,115,123,147,148],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-leadership","category-management","tag-coaching","tag-decision-making","tag-leadership","tag-management","tag-performance-improvement","tag-performance-management","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}