{"id":729,"date":"2011-01-04T16:57:29","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T21:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poojanwagh.opalstacked.com\/poojanblog\/?p=729"},"modified":"2011-01-04T16:57:29","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T21:57:29","slug":"who-i-want-to-be-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/who-i-want-to-be-at-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Who I want to be (at work)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t heard it already, listen to this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisamericanlife.org\/radio-archives\/episode\/370\/ruining-it-for-the-rest-of-us\">Ruining It for the Rest of Us | This American Life<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This episode of TAL contains some of the best audio I&#8217;ve heard.<\/p>\n<p>They describe a study where they place a &#8220;bad apple&#8221; in a group &#8220;acting either like a jerk, a slacker or a depressive. And within 45 minutes, the rest of the group started behaving like the bad apple.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Except one group was extremely resilient in the presence of this negativity. Turned out that group had a &#8220;golden apple&#8221;&#8211;a guy who &#8220;was particularly a good leader, and what he would do was ask questions, and he would engage all the team members, and he would diffuse conflicts.&#8221; (10:18)<\/p>\n<p>I want to be that golden apple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t heard it already, listen to this: Ruining It for the Rest of Us | This American Life. This episode of TAL contains some of the best audio I&#8217;ve heard. They describe a study where they place a &#8220;bad apple&#8221; in a group &#8220;acting either like a jerk, a slacker or a depressive. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-careerwork-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":730,"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions\/730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}