<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Nate,<DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jul 22, 2006, at 2:17 AM, Nate Duehr wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Monaco">But, I've found that it's a VERY poor indicator of whether or not they're ultimately successful at the job.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>However, I've seen NUMEROUS times where if the question were asked instead, "Does he/she seem to understand what we're trying to do and care about it?" -- looking back... all of the people I would have answered "Yes" to were around a long time, and were highly successful at their jobs.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Their skill set coming in only determined how long it would take for them to become successful.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>This is the best answer to your whole long cogent write up. Walt Disney stated "When we opened Disneyland, a lot of people got the impressions that it was a get-rich-quick thing, but they didn't realize that behind Disneyland was this great organization that I built here at the Studio, and they all got into it and we were doing it because we loved to do it."</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Nate, your answer is just like Walt's. Many a Enron, Tyco, etc sold people false Visions of what they wanted to do, they wanted it all for themselves. When you read "Good to Great" or "Built to Last" you find the same discussion of leadership. Only those that believe "Let's build something TOGETHER" do they build something of lasting value. That's what most people want to do, they want to make a difference, to apply their many God given talents to something of purpose.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Nate, you and I will get along just fine ;-)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Kevin</DIV></BODY></HTML>