--On Tuesday, May 01, 2012 15:15 -0400 "Worley, Dale R (Dale)"
<dworley(_at_)avaya(_dot_)com> 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