{"id":1351,"date":"2017-09-22T13:06:03","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T13:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/?p=1351"},"modified":"2017-09-22T13:06:03","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T13:06:03","slug":"short-story-sharpen-your-axe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/short-story-sharpen-your-axe\/","title":{"rendered":"Short Story &#8211; Sharpen Your Axe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sharpen Your Axe<\/p>\n<p>Jo John, a woodcutter, worked for a company for five years but never got a raise. The company hired Bill and within a year he got a raise. This caused resentment in John and he went to his boss to talk about it. The boss said, &#8220;You are still cutting the same number of trees you were cutting five years ago. We are a result-oriented company and would be happy to give you a raise if your productivity goes up.&#8221; John went back, started hitting harder and putting in longer hours but he still wasn&#8217;t able to cut more trees. He went back to his boss and told him his dilemma. The boss told John to go talk to Bill. &#8220;Maybe there is something Bill knows that you and l don&#8217;t.&#8221; John asked Bill how he managed to cut more trees. Bill answered, &#8220;After every tree l cut, l take a break for two minutes and sharpen my axe. When was the last time you sharpened your axe?&#8221; This question hit home like a bullet and John got his answer.<\/p>\n<p>Get more stories on Short Stories app <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/ETzph8\">https:\/\/goo.gl\/ETzph8<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharpen Your Axe Jo John, a woodcutter, worked for a company for five years but never got a raise. The company hired Bill and within a year he got a raise. This caused resentment in John and he went to his boss to talk about it. The boss said, &#8220;You are still cutting the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13826,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-other","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13826"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1352,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions\/1352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}