{"id":40816,"date":"2014-01-17T07:10:15","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T14:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/17\/voldemort-a-failure-of-listening-to-staff.html"},"modified":"2014-06-13T16:40:58","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T22:40:58","slug":"voldemort-a-failure-of-listening-to-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/17\/voldemort-a-failure-of-listening-to-staff.html","title":{"rendered":"Voldemort: A Failure of Listening to Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">If you trust them enough to hire them, then trust them enough to <i>listen<\/i> to them.<\/p>\n<p>Always hate seeing the boss run the\u00a0business into the ground.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/103748887870095862080'>Les Jenkins<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#39;s like upper management isn&#39;t even listening&#8230;\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p class='gpb-article' style='clear:both;'>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n                                                    <img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/JJT-zIr9j2JjoiASUM-tFJHYap1sSvC4r8GjaoihU9LMGjJNQCSOTW_Vbl0N5gDLJCLvGJfgkI079SHvDCr5CIUYCL-uoJtL7VHZQNQyNz9Uyek4NT_uTj7m=w120-h120' border='0' \/>\n                                                <\/div>\n<p>                                                <a href='http:\/\/feedly.com\/e\/cx7FvIGL'>Voldemort&#8217;s Assistant, Kevin<\/a><br \/>\n                                                \u00a0\u00a0See more art by\u00a0\n                                            <\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/UD2Vosprmp8' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you trust them enough to hire them, then trust them enough to listen to them. Always hate seeing the boss run the\u00a0business into the ground. Reshared post from +Les Jenkins It&#39;s like upper management isn&#39;t even listening&#8230;\ufeff Voldemort&#8217;s Assistant, Kevin \u00a0\u00a0See more art by\u00a0 View this post on Google+<\/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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-harry-potter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11497,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/13\/in_case_you_need_more_har.html","url_meta":{"origin":40816,"position":0},"title":"In case you need more Harry Potter","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 13-Aug-07 7:09pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Synopses of (and excerpts from) eight Chinese ripoffs unauthorized homages fakes from the last few years. 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