in the wake of growing pains and outward success, i am in an awkward position with most of the folks working with or for me. on the deeper level, we are undoubtedly successful within the industry and the marketplace as it comes to potential of the business and the value of the brand. on the other token, we’re all hurting financially because we’ve invested so much money back into the business. the question becomes, when will their be an ROI on our investment? the easy answer to that would be if we were all getting decent salaries now, then the investment would have paid off a bit. but since that is not the case, the value of the leadership and strategic direction is under fire. in some respect, i feel that it’s almost futile to discuss these matters due to the fact that you’re actually trying to reconcile philosophical points of view. i know myself and the respective parties enough to appreciate that our issues of contention in the board room stem from philosophical differences. for those that think in the short view, i would like to remind them that we would not even be here if we didn’t take the long view to begin with. so, is the long view too long or is it premature in the context of natural evolution. luckily it is still the majority view of the organization that we continue our long view development of a success brand.
