{"id":34715,"date":"2025-12-31T10:31:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T16:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=34715"},"modified":"2025-12-31T10:31:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T16:31:53","slug":"spoken-like-an-mba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/31\/spoken-like-an-mba\/","title":{"rendered":"Spoken Like An MBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6926661\/2025\/12\/31\/blues-jim-montgomery-retool-results\/\" target=\"_new\">Blues focused on creating \u2018Stanley Cup\u2019 standard for process, not on losses: \u2018Results are secondary\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The actual quote is a little less cringy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI think results are secondary right now to our process,\u201d Montgomery said. \u201cWinning net-fronts, winning special teams, winning the Grade-A chances \u2014 there\u2019s a lot of details that go into the major part of the process, and if we continue to be better at those things, the results will take care of themselves. I\u2019ve always believed that, and I will always believe that.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However, it&#8217;s still very Platonic versus Aristotelian, which sounds like so much in the corporate world (and even the political world) these days.  The process is what&#8217;s important; the results will align with the right process, not the results will lead to the right process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blues focused on creating \u2018Stanley Cup\u2019 standard for process, not on losses: \u2018Results are secondary\u2019 The actual quote is a little less cringy: \u201cI think results are secondary right now to our process,\u201d Montgomery said. \u201cWinning net-fronts, winning special teams, winning the Grade-A chances \u2014 there\u2019s a lot of details that go into the major [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34716,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34715\/revisions\/34716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}