{"id":3544,"date":"2010-08-03T14:04:32","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T18:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/?p=3544"},"modified":"2010-08-03T14:04:32","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T18:04:32","slug":"the-positive-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/03\/the-positive-no.html","title":{"rendered":"The Positive No"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alistapart.com\/articles\/no-one-nos-learning-to-say-no-to-bad-ideas\/\"><strong>No One Nos : Learning to Say No to Bad Ideas<\/strong><\/a> is an article on A List Apart that discusses when and how to address those situations where, for a variety of reasons, your best option is to tell someone &#8220;No&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the first portion of the article presents case studies of people who had to face telling a client, boss, or workgroup that something wasn&#8217;t going to happen.\u00a0 Some of what is presented amounts to taking the time to evaluate what is being asked, and figuring out how to present alternatives that make better business sense.<\/p>\n<p>Near the end, however, is a list of &#8220;takeaways&#8221; from the book &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/power-of-a-positive-no-how-to-say-no-and-still-get-to-yes\/oclc\/70718568\">The Power of a Positive No<\/a>&#8221; by William Ury.\u00a0 These are worth the effort to incorporate into our lives.<\/p>\n<p>There are as many effective ways to say &#8220;no&#8221; as there are reasons to  say &#8220;no&#8221; in the first place.\u00a0 Try to match the former with the latter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No One Nos : Learning to Say No to Bad Ideas is an article on A List Apart that discusses when and how to address those situations where, for a variety of reasons, your best option is to tell someone &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/03\/the-positive-no.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2921,2927,2929,2941,2977],"tags":[5292,5347,5357,5291,5385,5290],"class_list":["post-3544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-definitions","category-ethics","category-language","category-web-design","tag-a-list-apart","tag-ethics","tag-language","tag-no","tag-web-design","tag-william-ury"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-Va","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}