{"id":35,"date":"2006-03-30T14:46:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-30T19:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/?p=35"},"modified":"2006-03-30T14:46:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-30T19:46:00","slug":"leaky-decisons-illusions-that-led-to-the-great-chicago-flood-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/2006\/03\/leaky-decisons-illusions-that-led-to-the-great-chicago-flood-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaky Decisons: Illusions that Led to the Great Chicago Flood Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.i-leadonline.com\/lipstick-on-a-pig-keynote.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Lipstick on a Pig<\/a> keynote is based on an insightful quote by Jerry Weinberg: &#8220;It may look like a crisis, but it&#8217;s only the end of an illusion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For those of us who have a passion for getting things done, delivering projects, and leading people, there are powerful lessons to be learned by exploring the illusions we face.<\/p>\n<p>Charles Leroux provided an entertaining and insightful look (Chicago Tribune link no longer available) into a crisis that gripped the Chicago area: the Great Flood of 1992. It clearly illustrates how illusions led to the crisis that cost the area an estimated $800 million.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have an upcoming company or department meeting that would benefit from an entertaining, business-focused keynote? Give us a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.i-leadonline.com\/contactus.asp\">call<\/a> to get our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.i-leadonline.com\/lipstick-on-a-pig-keynote.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Lipstick on a Pig<\/a> keynote added to your meeting agenda!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Lipstick on a Pig keynote is based on an insightful quote by Jerry Weinberg: &#8220;It may look like a crisis, but it&#8217;s only the end of an illusion.&#8221; For those of us who have a passion for getting things done, delivering projects, and leading people, there are powerful lessons to be learned by exploring&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/2006\/03\/leaky-decisons-illusions-that-led-to-the-great-chicago-flood-crisis\/#more-35\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,12,20,7,8],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p488Wj-z","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}