{"id":6668,"date":"2016-12-05T13:12:52","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T19:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=6668"},"modified":"2016-12-05T14:28:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T20:28:55","slug":"mad-dog-mattis-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=6668","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;MAD DOG&#8221; MATTIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cWhat I\u2019ve found over many years in many different organizations if you take good people and good ideas, but you match them with bad processes, the bad processes will win 9\/10 times.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mattis went on to describe how our government process with respect to the budget is \u201cconvoluted\u201d so good ideas are stymied and don\u2019t emerge like they should.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fascinating interview here:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/video\/uncommon-knowledge-retired-us-marine-corps-gen-james-mattis\/D8F1B039-5E25-4829-9397-A704100629E0.html\">http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/video\/uncommon-knowledge-retired-us-marine-corps-gen-james-mattis\/D8F1B039-5E25-4829-9397-A704100629E0.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhat I\u2019ve found over many years in many different organizations if you take good people and good ideas, but you match them with bad processes, the bad processes will win 9\/10 times.\u201d Mattis went on to describe how our government process with respect to the budget is \u201cconvoluted\u201d so good ideas are stymied and don\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6669,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6668\/revisions\/6669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}