{"id":16540,"date":"2017-10-02T12:10:47","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T17:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=16540"},"modified":"2017-10-02T12:11:50","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T17:11:50","slug":"leadership-secrets-of-non-fictional-characters-part-14-in-a-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=16540","title":{"rendered":"Leadership Secrets of Non-Fictional Characters (part 14 in a series)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The debate over Hugh Hefner&#8217;s legacy is still going on, and likely will continue for a while. I don&#8217;t really have a dog in the fight, but I thought this was pretty compelling:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/career-politics\/a33168\/inside-the-secret-sisterhood-of-women-who-worked-at-playboy\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">And then, of course, there was Hef, who, whatever one thinks of his media persona, was personally involved in every part of the magazine and fostered a work environment open to all ideas, regardless of the source. &#8220;It was a completely non-hierarchical environment, says [former editor Barbara] Nellis. &#8220;If you were manning the receptionist desk in the front of the 10th floor at 919 North Michigan and you had a good idea, they were happy to have it.&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/career-politics\/a33168\/inside-the-secret-sisterhood-of-women-who-worked-at-playboy\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Said [former editor] Patty Lamberti: &#8220;Hugh called me when he heard I was leaving to say that he was sad to see me go, and I&#8217;d done a great job. To get a call like that from Hugh Hefner is one of the highlights of my career. When I left my other jobs, no one in charge ever said goodbye, and they were no Hugh Hefners.&#8221;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Hattip: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.advicegoddess.com\/archives\/2017\/09\/29\/predictable_fem.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amy Alkon<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The debate over Hugh Hefner&#8217;s legacy is still going on, and likely will continue for a while. I don&#8217;t really have a dog in the fight, but I thought this was pretty compelling: And then, of course, there was Hef, who, whatever one thinks of his media persona, was personally involved in every part of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16540"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16543,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16540\/revisions\/16543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}