{"id":24,"date":"2013-05-18T23:05:23","date_gmt":"2013-05-18T23:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whywedoit.net\/blog\/?p=24"},"modified":"2013-05-22T04:18:14","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T04:18:14","slug":"the-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whywedoit.net\/blog\/2013\/05\/18\/the-why\/","title":{"rendered":"The Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>In 2010 I watched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action.html\" target=\"_blank\">a TED.com presentation by Simon Sinek<\/a>, and it hit me between the eyes like a hockey puck.\u00a0 Simon was talking about Solution Tree, without using our name.\u00a0 He was articulating everything I believe about our business.\u00a0 Solution Tree is all about the Why, not the How or the What.\u00a0 Those two actions support the Why.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action.html\" height=\"185\" width=\"315\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>What<\/strong> we do at Solution Tree is produce very high quality professional development products.\u00a0<strong> How<\/strong> we work at Solution Tree is our Mission Statement. <em>To advance the work of our authors.\u00a0 <\/em>The <strong>Why<\/strong> is our Vision Statement.\u00a0 <em>To transform education world wide to ensure learning for all.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>It is not what we do, but why we do it.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em>This blog is about the Why.\u00a0 Stories about our authors, staff, culture, and my observations and insights from the road.\u00a0 Why we do what we do is arguably the most important Why in the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2010 I watched a TED.com presentation by Simon Sinek, and it hit me between the eyes like a hockey puck.\u00a0 Simon was talking about Solution Tree, without using our name.\u00a0 He was articulating everything I believe about our business.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whywedoit.net\/blog\/2013\/05\/18\/the-why\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3xSk4-o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whywedoit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whywedoit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whywedoit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whywedoit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whywedoit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/whywedoit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28,"href":"https:\/\/whywedoit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whywedoit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whywedoit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whywedoit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}