{"id":506,"date":"2007-12-04T16:08:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-04T22:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/?p=506"},"modified":"2021-01-22T11:23:44","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T09:23:44","slug":"jake-white-a-timing-genius-through-and-through-win-or-lose-its-how-he-played-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/jake-white-a-timing-genius-through-and-through-win-or-lose-its-how-he-played-the-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake White &#8212; a timing genius through and through &#8212; &#8216;Win or lose, it&#8217;s how he played the game!&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }<\/style>\n<div class=\"flickr-frame\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dplanet\/1661164717\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2387\/1661164717_711d8acdc1.jpg?w=605\" class=\"flickr-photo\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<span class=\"flickr-caption\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dplanet\/1661164717\/\">RugbyWorldCup_018<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/dplanet\/\">Dplanet::<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"flickr-yourcomment\"> In response to <a href=\"http:\/\/wiredgecko.net\/2007\/12\/be-a-sport-jake\/\">Paul&#8217;s response<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miasolutions.co.za\/blog\/jake-white-loves-money\">Henre Rossouw&#8217;s musings<\/a> on Jake White&#8217;s marketing genius in the timing of his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/index.php?art_id=vn20071124091500485C727064\">book<\/a> release panning the South African rugby administration.<\/p>\n<p>I too think Jake White was a genius in his approach to the timing for <a href=\"https:\/\/xn--norgescsino-38a.com\/casino\/mr-green\/\">mrgreen com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d go further, and suggest that his timing was planned WAY in advance.<\/p>\n<p>It takes a good year to merely WRITE a book, let alone see it to print. This book has necessarily been in the works for &#8212; probably &#8212; the past three or four years. I think he&#8217;s a clever enough man to have been able to foresee the endgame years ago.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d guess that Mr White may have fanned certain flames, knowing that there&#8217;d be consequences. He&#8217;s no fool. If he says &#8216;X&#8217;, and he KNOWS that one of his opponents in the rugby world will say &#8216;Y&#8217;, and he KNOWS that the exchange will be controversial, then hell&#8230; why not say &#8216;X&#8217; for strategic reasons?<\/p>\n<p>The guy&#8217;s a manipulator. That&#8217;s his job. It&#8217;s what he does best. He&#8217;s also a strategic genius. That&#8217;s how the Boks won the world cup. I don&#8217;t think the bloke set a foot wrong in his entire campaign to get the Boks there. Including the so-called missteps he took in fielding &#8216;poor&#8217; teams. The subtle art of misdirection at work, no?<\/p>\n<p>And I think there&#8217;s a further element to his strategy and timing. He&#8217;s not JUST looking for personal gain. He&#8217;s making sure that he sets the bar for the next coach. He&#8217;s really done an almost mystical job of setting very high stakes, and demonstrating to the world (and South Africa, for what it&#8217;s worth) the consequences of his successor fumbling the ball.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s checkmated SA rugby good and solid. If they put an idiot in his place, or continue with their own idiocy, there&#8217;s a smiling Jake White holding a trophy on a book cover for them to be humiliated by in the privacy of their own consciences. Sheer genius.<\/p>\n<p><i>The photo is used under a Creative Commons &#8216;Attribution&#8217; license. Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/index.php?art_id=vn20071124091500485C727064\">Dplanet<\/a> for the pic.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Roy Blumenthal is a writer, director, artist, and <a href=\"http:\/\/snipurl.com\/visualfacilitator\">visual facilitator<\/a>. Hire him to make pictures of your meetings or workshops.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RugbyWorldCup_018, originally uploaded by Dplanet::. In response to Paul&#8217;s response to Henre Rossouw&#8217;s musings on Jake White&#8217;s marketing genius in the timing of his book release panning the South African rugby administration. I too think Jake White was a genius &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/jake-white-a-timing-genius-through-and-through-win-or-lose-its-how-he-played-the-game\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jake White &#8212; a timing genius through and through &#8212; &#8216;Win or lose, it&#8217;s how he played the game!&#8217;<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"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":[15,10,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-commons","category-life","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p521FP-8a","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}