--On Tuesday, May 01, 2012 15:15 -0400 "Worley, Dale R (Dale)" <dworley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >... > That is, to be aware of the need to keep the > leadership corps continuously refreshed with younger and > less-experienced people. Which more or less requires a method > of culling the greybeards, given that they don't conveniently > die when they're 50. Speaking as a greybeard who doesn't particularly like the idea of being culled, an alternative is to try to move such people on to mentoring/ advisory roles (and the few tasks we have around that _really_ need many years of experience) rather than occupying roles that can be performed by others. That is actually easily accomplished because it can be done unilaterally by the older members of the community. The harder part --because it does require community and leadership commitment -- is finding ways to make those mentoring/ advisory roles work. john