[L,TOWM]

I see about four people on that list I’ll miss. And only one of those will I miss a lot. I’ve been through about four cycles of these now and threads that made this one look like a game of patty cake. The Westerfield threads gave us “The Smoky Backroom” they were so nasty. Pick any Schiavo thread or regular Crevo thread from a few years back and you’ll see some truly vile posting.

This will make 5 people that have vanished from this forum in the last 7 years that I really cared about. Only 2 of those have been zotted. I can’t count the number people that I thought were interesting or worthwhile that have been zotted or otherwise faded away. The funny thing is, the ones that disagreed me and locked horns with me in CIVIL DISCUSSION are the ones I miss the most. People who agree with you are dime a dozen on this forum. The gems are those that will argue with you without turning into Clymers (big time) while doing it.

< shrugs > Stick around another 5 years... Who knows, maybe one of these days you’ll see me ride the lightning. You may even cheer that on and draw some flames from some one that actually thinks this forum “lost a great conservative” by zotting me.

[commonguymd]

Jack Welch once talked about legacy - legacy as an employee in a leadership position. If you survive 5 years in the same position you become nothing more than a legacy. Your ideas become stagnant, your value becomes linear. It becomes home, and you walk past the four foot weed every single day without seeing it. Each successful corporate offspring he had adopted the same philosophy and so many of these CFO’s, COO’s, Presidents, and CEO’s sought other pastures with his philosophies to great rewards. He was right, and GE adopted a program to weed out the legacies. It works, I have lived by it. Sounds rude, sounds crude, but to further an objective and goal you must do that as leader from time to time. Let new leaders rise from the shadows.