Well said Ted.
After finishing college in 1971, spent 37 years working for 3 public and 1 private company.
I never met a manager at any level, clear up to the CEO and Chairman of the Board, and I was a manager for 26 years out of 37 at vaious levels with all 4, never make a mistake...including me if you can believe it...LOL.
Just as with life itself, mistakes are a learning experience and if not, that person has failed to grasp the opportunity to"improve" him/her self from errors, and try not to go there again. There are times a "manager" has to error several times before finally getting a clue.
Looking back on my 11 year saga with EDIG, I can see the mistakes of many, who have come and gone, with some still with us the last many years, and I include members of the BOD as "managers" be they employees or not. We had 2 employees who were managers, despite 1 of the titles technically not a manager, but we all know he did in fact play a big management role, and now he is no longer on board, leaving 1 employee/manager/BOD member.
This little company by all accounts should have been BK years ago, but they survived. They tried to license their tech and it got ripped off instead for the most part as we all know. They tried to sell widgets, the revs kept them afloat so to speak, but they could not compete with the big boys.
Fast forward to 2006/2007, DM on the scene doing their DD, Dr Pat fully engaged with management/BOD providing DM's James Sze ammunition for DM's committee to decide whether to sign us up or not....bingo.
Yes, past and present manager/BOD members made mistakes and I don't need to be told that over and over...I understand.
The brightest and most successful CEO's on the planet have all made mistakes they regret, but they cannot be erased. Same goes with every President of the USA and leaders of every country on Earth for hundreds of years...should our boys be any different? Should we expect perfection from today going forward? Can anyone change the past?
I'm in the here, now and the future, as looking back accomplishes nothing.
To use bankerson's sign off...GLTAL.
