{"id":185635,"date":"2014-09-21T19:21:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T00:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/09\/21\/concept-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2014-09-21T19:21:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T00:21:00","slug":"concept-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/09\/21\/concept-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Concept of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipglossary.com\/glossary\/edifice-complex\/\">Edifice Complex<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Term coined by the lawyer and historian Professor Cyril Northcote Parkinson in <i>Parkinson\u2019s Law: The Pursuit of Progress,<\/i> London (John Murray 1958, Houghton Mifflin, 1962) referring to the tendency of successful organizations to build new headquarters just before they begin to decline. See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipglossary.com\/glossary\/new-headquartersoffice-syndrome-shiny\/\" title=\"New Headquarters\/Office Syndrome, Shiny\">New Headquarters\/Office Syndrome, Shiny<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipglossary.com\/glossary\/business-week-curse-of-slide\/\" title=\"Business Week, Curse of, -Slide\">Business Week, Curse of<\/a>.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m beginning to think that this has the germ of an investment strategy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edifice Complex: Term coined by the lawyer and historian Professor Cyril Northcote Parkinson in Parkinson\u2019s Law: The Pursuit of Progress, London (John Murray 1958, Houghton Mifflin, 1962) referring to the tendency of successful organizations to build new headquarters just before they begin to decline. See New Headquarters\/Office Syndrome, Shiny; Business Week, Curse of. I&#8217;m beginning &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1201,1005,1003],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-business","category-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185635"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}