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Message: <blockquote data-quote="f8." data-source="post: 121433" data-attributes="member: 923">good point e46fanatic. i totally agree with the concept that everything you enjoy or suffer today is a direct consequence of some action or effort put in by yourself or someone else a long time ago. every present moment is reap and payback time for the past. and even if you're enjoying sucess from yesterday's work, today, if you stop putting in work to ensure you can reap in the future, you have in fact sealed your fate for the future. it will trickle out over time and prove so. thus the famous chinese saying of 3 generation from ruins to riches to ruins.what went around then, comes around now, right?this is actually very parallel to the buddhist view of karma. that the good karma you did in your past life affects your current life. and what your next life will be like will take into account the karma's you do in the present life. etc.essentially, this mode of thinking encourages people to have a long term view. in the business organisation, the dream of a visionary leader is to put in place an organisation and environment that continues to sustain itself and progress long after the leader has died. thus his legacy. but the onus is also in each generation's leader to put in the work to ensure the momentum goes well into the future. this, in essence, is succession. read andy grove of intel's message in the latest annual report.</blockquote>