{"id":226,"date":"2020-11-02T12:11:04","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T17:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/?p=226"},"modified":"2020-11-02T12:11:04","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T17:11:04","slug":"on-the-back-foot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/on-the-back-foot\/","title":{"rendered":"On the back foot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A Cape Town colleague just used the phrase “on the back foot” in a meeting. It’s a cricket reference. When a player is “on the back foot”, they’re playing a defensive move. To play “on the front foot” is to play offensively. In business terms, it’s a reference to being in a position where you’re responding to things going badly (“on the back foot”) rather than getting ahead of them and solving problems before they flare up (“on the front foot”).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Cape Town colleague just used the phrase “on the back foot” in a meeting. It’s a cricket reference. When a player is “on the back foot”, they’re playing a defensive move. To play “on the front foot” is to play offensively. In business terms, it’s a reference to being in a position where you’re […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}