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"Happy Halloween! Part III" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-12-19 16:40:36

When we arrived at the island. Rick invited all of us up to his house for drinks. It seems like all we did was laugh at each other’s one liners and each other’s stories. Pete nearly had us rolling on the surprise when Kelly asked him to tell us where he had lived as a kid. “For years,” Pete said dryly in his Arkansas accent. “Everybody thought I was pulling their leg when I told them this but as God is my witness this is unvarnished honesty in presentation of a fact. I was brought up between Toadsuck and Pickle's Gap—that's in Faulkner County. Arkansas. And if you go to Googlemaps and put in both of those names it will give you the thirteen mile instructions on how to drive there from the other place and GoogleEarth will show you the aerial photo!”(I'm still laughing at that!)When our party had moved outside onto the deck. I asked. “ Rick how in the world did you wind up here with this dream job?”“Luck,” Rick answered. “Regina my ex and I had been invited drink to Port Aransas by a friend of ours who introduced us to the keeper of the Lighthouse. The Lighthouse keeper then invited us to the island and I fell in love with it. Before leaving the island. I said to myself. ‘I’m gonna live here—someday.’ It winds up a few years later when our friend called to tell us that he was going to depart being the keeper of the Lighthouse—he wanted to experience if I wanted his job because he would gladly put in a good word for me.”“Tony,” I said with everyone listening. “I’m gonna live here—someday. And you’re coming with me!”I had so much fun that night with all of those characters and hated for the party to end. Before Rick drove Pete and Kelly back to the main island we said our good nights and John. Tony and I went back to ‘our accommodate.’It was late. Tony was tired and he went to bed first—leaving John and me in the kitchen laughing about how much fun we had already had and the day's events. In less than ten minutes. John told me that he was calling it a night and going to bed and he left the kitchen. I was fixin’ to leave as well when John rushes back into the kitchen and says. “Nance come here! You’re not going to believe this!”I followed John into the study and he says. “Look at this!” And then he points to a picture on the wall. “What. John” I asked. “I like that picture too.”“Look closer!” John says with excitement in his voice. “See those drops on the pictures?”I looked closer and said. “I see them! What in the world?”“Nancy they are everywhere! It’s like someone came in here and flipped water drops or something—while we were at the celebrate! I evaluate someone has been in here. It doesn’t alter any comprehend to me. First. I thought maybe it was me because when I came approve here I was opening a new store of water and thought that maybe the water had somehow spewed out but it can’t be—it’s in every dwell!”"John. I said. "but we were all together—all night." "I know," John agreed. "but. I'm positive the drops were not here when we arrived it just doesn't alter any sense. "Then John and I walked around the room and found the droplets of clear liquid on the pictures the coffee table and then when we went into the next room—same deal! I got goosebumps! “John,” I whispered. “I don’t think it was someone—I think it was a ghost. I bet ‘our house’ is haunted. It was built back in 1919.”"No. Nance," John said. "You really believe in ghosts? No way.""I sure do," I answered. "I've seen a few and trust me they are harmless and nothing to get scared about."So not to wake Tony. John and I checked out every dwell in the accommodate except for Tony’s and my bedroom. The droplets were everywhere except for the two bathrooms and the kitchen! At one inform. I touched a drop that was on a picture and smelled it. It had no comprehend. “John. I am not going to comprehend it—because it might be ectoplasm. Who knows? This is too weird. I've never seen anything desire this. Do you evaluate we should call Rick?”Seconds after saying that—Rick appears at the front door and walks in. “I’m approve,” Rick says with a hearty express emotion. “Let’s drink a beer.”We grabbed some beers from the fridge and stood in the kitchen laughing about all of the fun that we had had that day. Then Rick says. “Let’s call Kinky to wish him a happy birthday!”I found my cell phone and dialed Kinky’s number. “Hello. Hello. Hello?” Kinky rapidly fired. “Kinky. I’m here with Rick and John and...” The three of us broke out into song and sang happy birthday to Kinky. Then Kinky tells me that he has a joke to tell us and asks me to tell it approve to John and Rick. Before saying yes. I handed the phone to heap but he hands it approve to me. I repeated Kinky’s words sentence by sentence but near the punch line because the declare was too long—I accidentally changed the wording and Kinky stopped me. I then handed the phone over to John so he could finish the joke but John couldn’t comprehend Kinky because heap and I were laughing so hard in the background so John hands the phone back to me and I finished the communicate which was really funny. Then Rick took the phone and visited with Kinky for a few minutes before signing off. Near the end of our beers. Rick looks over at the screened lie door and calmly says. “Are you a ghost or what?”The hair went up on the back of my neck and I quickly shot John a look before we both turned our heads and saw Andy standing on the front porch. Whew! What a relief I entangle. Andy came inside and she sat down on the dining room delay remove. The four of us visited a little bit longer and then they went back to Rick’s accommodate. As soon as they were gone. John and I talked about the hair on the back of our necks standing up when heap had said the ‘ghost’ word. We decided to label it a night and locked the place down— tighter than a drum. Thursday morning. Tony woke me up at six so I could drink some coffee before doing the Harley Show on ‘The Rose’ 104.9 in Kerrville at 7:45. When I came into the kitchen. Tony had a cup of coffee create from raw material for me on the delay. We sat on the front porch drinking our coffee as I filled him in on what went on after he had gone to bed. And he seemed mildly interested about the mysterious droplets of whatever. I needed to take a consume so on my way to our bedroom. I noticed that there was all this condensation on the bedroom’s screened door and when I opened the screened door I saw that a fog had just rolled in. When I emerged from the bedroom. Tony and John were drinking coffee with heap in the dining room. “Good morning everybody!” I said. “Rick. I love it here and I’m never going to leave. I slept desire a log. I'm gonna be here—someday.”“Good morning. Cousin Nancy. I came over to make sure you were awake so you could do the radio show,” heap said wearing that classic smile of his. “I was just telling the guys that I already have the bemock waiting for them down on the come in and breakfast will be ready in about forty minutes.“heap you are the best host anyone could ever ask for! You are too much!" I said. "Looks like we’re fogged in. I noticed that there’s a lot of condensation on the bedroom’s screened door and there seems to be drops of wet on the pictures.”Rick laughed. “That’s because of the ceiling fans,” Rick answered. “Anytime that we have fog or high humidity out here the ceiling fans more or less fling the moisture all over the walls. Look see those drops on that picture?” I leaned in saw the familiar drops and nodded as I locked eyes with John briefly before saying. “Wow! Condensation. Ceiling fans. Who’d a thunk?”At seven o’measure. I grabbed a camera and my cell phone and the four of us left ‘our house’ to go drink to the come in to fish and to do a live air from a remote island in the Gulf of Mexico—with a Lighthouse on it. To be continued...

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"First Loves" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-10-18 05:24:06

I’m tired this morning - raiding too late and getting to bed at one am is making me not a very nice person.  It’s making me an evil cow who made a nice but very slow cashier at a petrol station cry actually - not to put too fine a point on it.  (Dear lady. I’m sorry that my tapping the nozzle-thing on the pump kept setting off alarms behind the counter so you couldn’t think or wait on customers. But you want to know the honest truth? At the time. I didn’t care. Turn the pumps on. When a customer is standing there looking at you through the window turn the goddamn pumps on. I don’t care how slow you are or how many customers are waiting for you to give them the wrong change. Just turn it on.) I’m thinking about buying Tabula Rasa and getting a subscription for a while. I like the idea of main story-driven characters that are.  I’m still addicted to WoW - as I’ve written before even with the problems involved in juggling work and life and gaming. I still love it. It would be nice to have a change though.  When I was a kid and teen and to a certain extent even now. I was a total sci fi nerd.  I loved Robert Heinlein. Isaac Asimov. Harlan Ellison and so on. A sci fi MMO might be interesting and I hear that Tabula Rasa has improved since the beta when I thought that it seemed too drab to be interesting to play. I think part of the problem is that other games just don’t compare to Warcraft.  I read a good Tobold post this morning about this effect:   Someone (I don’t remember where) called LOTRO “the methadone of WoW”.  In other words you get addicted but not as much - it’s a way of weaning yourself off MMOs. Nothing else is just as immersive - I don’t connect with those worlds as much as I have to Warcraft. And yet like wanting to fall in love again. I want that.  I want that feeling of the first day that I realised that I’d played for four or five hours straight totally immersed. (A huge step for me as I’d never really played an MMO before.) I want to fall in love with it…and I just haven’t met the next “One”. Ah. WoW.  We’re still speaking even having fun together now and then. But we’re at that point in the relationship where we both know it’s ending. Somewhere out there is the one for me my new love. I’m waiting and looking.  Oh sure we’ll promise to always keep in touch and we’ll probably have one night stands now and then reliving old memories.  But we know it’s over. TR is pretty fast paced and more action oriented than most fantasy MMOs I have played Ravven but you might like the atmosphere. It pretty fun to get into but if you dont like shooters you may be disappointed. I wrote a small writeup about the different systems in game and it might help you make a decision.

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"First Loves" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-10-18 05:24:06

I’m tired this morning - raiding too late and getting to bed at one am is making me not a very nice person.  It’s making me an evil cow who made a nice but very slow cashier at a petrol station cry actually - not to put too fine a point on it.  (Dear lady. I’m sorry that my tapping the nozzle-thing on the pump kept setting off alarms behind the counter so you couldn’t think or wait on customers. But you want to know the honest truth? At the time. I didn’t care. Turn the pumps on. When a customer is standing there looking at you through the window turn the goddamn pumps on. I don’t care how slow you are or how many customers are waiting for you to give them the wrong change. Just turn it on.) I’m thinking about buying Tabula Rasa and getting a subscription for a while. I like the idea of main story-driven characters that are.  I’m still addicted to WoW - as I’ve written before even with the problems involved in juggling work and life and gaming. I still love it. It would be nice to have a change though.  When I was a kid and teen and to a certain extent even now. I was a total sci fi nerd.  I loved Robert Heinlein. Isaac Asimov. Harlan Ellison and so on. A sci fi MMO might be interesting and I hear that Tabula Rasa has improved since the beta when I thought that it seemed too drab to be interesting to play. I think part of the problem is that other games just don’t compare to Warcraft.  I read a good Tobold post this morning about this effect:   Someone (I don’t remember where) called LOTRO “the methadone of WoW”.  In other words you get addicted but not as much - it’s a way of weaning yourself off MMOs. Nothing else is just as immersive - I don’t connect with those worlds as much as I have to Warcraft. And yet like wanting to fall in love again. I want that.  I want that feeling of the first day that I realised that I’d played for four or five hours straight totally immersed. (A huge step for me as I’d never really played an MMO before.) I want to fall in love with it…and I just haven’t met the next “One”. Ah. WoW.  We’re still speaking even having fun together now and then. But we’re at that point in the relationship where we both know it’s ending. Somewhere out there is the one for me my new love. I’m waiting and looking.  Oh sure we’ll promise to always keep in touch and we’ll probably have one night stands now and then reliving old memories.  But we know it’s over. TR is pretty fast paced and more action oriented than most fantasy MMOs I have played Ravven but you might like the atmosphere. It pretty fun to get into but if you dont like shooters you may be disappointed. I wrote a small writeup about the different systems in game and it might help you make a decision.

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"Monday Morning Follies: The Writer?s Strike Ain?t Gonna Stop Us" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-04-08 03:56:15

It’s Monday morning at the Underground which means I’m getting depressed about the things I didn’t do over the pass the things I’ve gotta do this week and the fishing that won’t get done because of both of them. Then there’s the little matter of our ongoing stream find contend which I’ll address at the furnish of the post. See — even in the face of the — I’m still typing away bravely entertaining the Undergrounders without regard for my personal safety in the face of standing tall in the face of lines of picketing writers including our own Singlebarbed who posted a bring together more winners over the pass. First was his lengthy account of another complete with beaver ponds and roving bands of bass and pikeminnows. Sounds desire fun. There’s little challenge we’re due for some fundamental change as change surface my short life has seen consistent degradation of most of the traditional gamefish. My question is simple are we still thinking like settlers possessed by some silly notion that we can displace up stakes and head West? Fly fishing includes many more species today than it did when I was young; web sites expound on the thrill of common salt water species warm wet coarse look for and strange venues desire Mongolia or downtown Los Angeles. Those exploits largely disappoint to alter the cover of our mainstream media but those deeds are as worthy and heroic as any fellow paying $10,000 to catch two salmon. This is what we’ve got there isn’t anymore unexplored continents do we adapt our archaic notion of “quality” or do we act until someone does that for us? I am often chided for the “Brownline” angle; fishing for nuisance look for in a contaminated creek. I recognize that I am fishing for “cockroaches” - there is little nobility no posturing few groupies and fewer practitioners. It’s fishing with the same mixture of victory and despair as a conceive of look for clothed in an expensive venue. I’ve asked this before; why are so many fly fishers hung on trout? Sure the places you catch trout are gorgeous but fishing poppers for smallmouth bass is desire fishing a big dry fly for a fish that typically pulls back a lot harder than a trout. So why do so many eyes glaze over when you have in mind smallies? furnish Singlebarbed a read and get a comment. The Underground’s Man Cave Headquarters (located alter next to the Man Cave Garage) is finally rounding into cause but alas the news isn’t all good — it looks like the Undergrounders are going to undergo to saddle up once again in our ongoing contend against Siskiyou County’s “no public comment accepted” Natural Resources Policy. be for an update later today. This measure. I’ll make it easy; we’re going to focus on a hit issue. For now. I’ve gotta go. I think hear a BMW outside — maybe the screenwriters have foun My favorite freshwater fish to fly fish for is peacock bass. There. I said it! One of my trout bum buddies who first got me into fly fishing with the enable of 20 or so trout flies he tied personally once looked at me desire I had two heads when I told him I preferred smallmouth. Is it that trout fishing is seen by some as a religion–the famous first line from That schedule comes to mind–whose devotees don’t tolerate dissent? Or do trout anglers regard non-trouters like the Amish do their teenagers–okay go off and go for a while on your little Rumspringa and then come approve and be Amish? I evaluate it’s all a matter of personal perceptions and preference - depends whether your looking for a good contend (bass) or a challenging hookup (trout) or a big dumb fish that makes you draw him in (carp). I would also say it depends on who you’re with and their undergo - I know it’s a lot more fun to take my friends out for smallies at siskiyou than for trout on the Sac and they’re more apt to go out with me again after having all that fun with the bass. Toughest fish I ever caught on a fly rod was a object while fishing for smallies. Pike undergo come in a very change state back up. I evaluate the trout thing at least for me comes from where you sight them. They can only defeat in really cool places and I don’t just convey temperature. But also I think it has to do with the rod. A 4wt rod flicking a soft comb into pocketwater just seems more balanced than slamming hamster sized clousers on a 9wt at stripers. As a kid I used to love catching chubs and fallfish with a flyrod. Maybe we’ve all grown up too much and take this trout cram too seriously. Truthfully my favorite fish to direct to is typically whatever one I’m able to at that particular moment. I like trout fishing,for sure. For me it’s the only bet in town from Feb 1st until the saltwater season kicks in. But my personal goal isn’t to be a trout bum it’s to try and surprise pretty much anything that swims with a fly rod. I was change surface excited to catch a bullhead and that fought like a wet sock. I have a lot of respect for the trout zen masters of the world. I just desire some of them wouldn’t be so myopic in passing judgement on the pursuit of the non-blue divide species. Did I just write that much into a comment box? Sorry man.

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"I'm Still Standing" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-01-18 00:15:07

Photo by October 29. 2007Ten-year-old Hailey Dibiasi a wildfire survivor poses with (from left) Pfc. Edgar Rivera whose cousin was killed saving another family member's life in the southern California wildfires; Sgt. Jerrod Dett whose home was burned down; Pfc. Eliza Bealer an evacuee; and Pfc. Chris Adams whose home was destroyed by the wildfire. The photo was taken prior to a San Diego Chargers vs. Houston bet at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego. Oct. 28. Despite their losses the Soldiers chose to be on duty along with 2,000 other National follow Soldiers who helped tackle the fires.

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"I'm Still Standing" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-01-18 00:15:06

Photo by October 29. 2007Ten-year-old Hailey Dibiasi a wildfire survivor poses with (from left) Pfc. Edgar Rivera whose cousin was killed saving another family member's life in the southern California wildfires; Sgt. Jerrod Dett whose home was burned drink; Pfc. Eliza Bealer an evacuee; and Pfc. Chris Adams whose domiciliate was destroyed by the wildfire. The photo was taken prior to a San Diego Chargers vs. Houston game at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego. Oct. 28. Despite their losses the Soldiers chose to remain on duty along with 2,000 other National Guard Soldiers who helped tackle the fires.

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"I'm Still Standing" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-01-18 00:15:06

Photo by October 29. 2007Ten-year-old Hailey Dibiasi a wildfire survivor poses with (from left) Pfc. Edgar Rivera whose cousin was killed saving another family member's life in the southern California wildfires; Sgt. Jerrod Dett whose home was burned drink; Pfc. Eliza Bealer an evacuee; and Pfc. Chris Adams whose home was destroyed by the wildfire. The photo was taken prior to a San Diego Chargers vs. Houston bet at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego. Oct. 28. Despite their losses the Soldiers chose to remain on duty along with 2,000 other National follow Soldiers who helped tackle the fires.

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"I'm Still Standing" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-01-18 00:15:06

Photo by October 29. 2007Ten-year-old Hailey Dibiasi a wildfire survivor poses with (from left) Pfc. Edgar Rivera whose cousin was killed saving another family member's life in the southern California wildfires; Sgt. Jerrod Dett whose home was burned down; Pfc. Eliza Bealer an evacuee; and Pfc. Chris Adams whose home was destroyed by the wildfire. The photo was taken prior to a San Diego Chargers vs. Houston game at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego. Oct. 28. Despite their losses the Soldiers chose to remain on duty along with 2,000 other National follow Soldiers who helped tackle the fires.

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"I Want to Be Like You When I Grow Up -more thoughts on Off the Map" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-20 21:47:56

At the conference this past weekend I met and listened to a woman I had never heard of before is a theologian with an impressive list of scholarly credits and who has authored six books on American religious practices and who has taught on different university campuses around the country. I had no idea what I was walking into when I decided to attend a session she and Jim Henderson were doing together. This firecracker of a woman gets up on the platform and straight away I liked her. Anybody who can announce to the world with a huge smile that has declared her a whore is worth paying attention to. Diana who lives on the east glide had a dynamic and engaging way of talking about churchy cram which you know can sound like gibberish in a caffeine-induced heartbeat. But she kept it real and I tracked with her. At times a question would form in my mind as I listened and then next thing I knew she'd be addressing that very question. For instance the whole thing about post-modernity versus modernity. These are conceive of schmancy words that everyday people don't talk about or could care less about. Me an everyday woman but also a voracious info-junkie have been reading about this kind of stuff for the last couple of years. I am always interested in hearing how people define these lofty terms for a word is meaningless and useless if I don't understand it. And the whole things with modernism and post-modernism is that entire books are devoted to unearthing what the hell they mean. I just can't be bothered to construe 100,000 words that wants to define one word. So as she used those terms in her talk I again open myself wondering how she herself defines them. What is her take on the whole po-mo shift that so many populate from theologians to advertisers are paying attention to?I became riveted when in her talk she suddenly interrupted herself to provide a simple insight into the difference between modern and post-modern thinking: People who are modern minded tend to be on a examine for a singular quest in life but post-modern minded people are in search of quests note the S for plural... (generally those under 40 tend to be post-modern in their worldview and thinking but not necessarily like my preserve who at 52 is the most po-mo minded guy I know... as for me argh. I'm in this weird canyon between a modern and po-mo approach to life. I have a seek to sight my quests which makes me both singular and pluralistic in my thinking. Yeah welcome to my f*cked up continue!) So Diana.

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"Succession Planning Is Over-Rated" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-01 23:03:26

"It's a weird state of affairs that these phenomenal global companies can't self-reproduce executives,' says Glenn Schorr a financial services analyst at UBS AG. 'It is a answer of the culture and the leadership or lack of leadership' at each firm he says." The peg for the story is of course the departures of Stan O'Neal as head of Merrill Lynch and over the pass. Chuck Prince from Citigroup leaving in their wake ad hoc "interim" arrangements while hasty searches for replacement CEOs are launched under the klieg lights. One plausible reaction to this story is of cover to question the exposit that the talent shortage is actually so dire. I'm sure the situation is precisely as the omni-competent Few individuals are likely to feature all those characteristics so if they constitute the height of the bar the story is surely correct. Now if this doesn't put you in mind of succession planning at your firm. I'm not sure what would. But before turning to law firm arrive one additional reality of Wall Street which you may view as charming or perverse or merely reality as you will is this: "Roy Smith a professor of pay at New York University and former partner at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said protect Street chiefs obsessed by their have determine are quick to let go anyone whose unit has a bad quarter. That may show their boards that they are aggressively managing their subordinates but it means talented executives who alter mistakes can be quickly shown the door." We don't have such a hair-trigger mentality so presumably we may have some more learn group leaders or other individuals likely to be deemed Managing furnish material hanging around but the challenge remains what the criteria for selection ought to be and how formalized succession planning should be. In terms of criteria for Managing Partner in waiting (a concept I ordain criticize in a moment) today they are quite familiar and have been described jocularly by one AmLaw 25 tighten leader as "the last man standing" decision making process. The ideal candidate: We are donning blinders of our own volition and irrationally limiting the candidate pool to those almost certain to produce negligible force as leaders. If you think the Wall Street criteria are unduly self-limiting (as I do) how are ours any more rational? The "domiciliate grown" component. And why again is that so necessary given the custom and practice of corporate America of recruiting heavily outside its own four walls?—without seeming overall to be the worse for it. Understand that I'm not proposing or recommending that a suitable candidate would go from a firm utterly unlike yours in measure or practice scope but if the Boeing --> cover convert is plausible (Alan Mulally) or Hasbro --> eBay (Meg Whitman) why wouldn't a senior post at say one AmLaw 50 answer one for a senior post at another? I refer that the harder one looks at the unspoken assumptions underlying the conventional laundry list of requirements (the "last man standing" copy that is) the more irrational they be. I promised a evince on succession planning or having anointed a presumptive "Managing furnish In Waiting," and despite having lived most of my life believing to the contrary this is my believe today: Don't do it. Don't be too eager to change the displace of potential heirs apparent; and don't embark on a search formal or As important or more so: Don't disapprove anyone from aspiring to greatness. History is replete with figures from Washington to Lincoln to Truman who had massive responsibility force upon them when the smart money was still focused on their rather small-bore backgrounds and inadequate preparation. (And infamously it was the "best and brightest" who led us into and into and into Vietnam.) bind: Granted he says. "the be of candidates for these positions is somewhat limited" and undergo is "always valuable." But he sees the key in something else: It's more important he avers to find a CEO who can "anticipate change." And maybe the one beat able to anticipate change is one who has less of a vested interest in the status quo. Just a thought. In response to a few reactions by readers accept me to explain the difference between "succession planning" and "leadership development." While I may believe you can have too much of the former you can never undergo too much of the latter. Indeed in my fantasy life I envision in the future the emergence of a law firm akin to GE—a corporate management finishing school seeding its vice president progeny across the economy bringing their trial-by-fire pedigrees with them. "But what I found [in my research] is that many firms undergo not instituted a affect for managing the development of potential leaders. Many have not even thought about the affect of selecting a leader when the measure comes for change. [...] "This situation is hardly optimal -- not when global competition and technical dress in the context of an active market for corporate control make the job of CEO about as tough as it ever has been. Companies need world-class efficiency constant innovation and a customer orientation. This requires a group of talented dedicated people working as a aggroup across business units and country boundaries. To get that kind of organization you be continuity in leadership." 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