Dear Walt,
Roger passed yesterday at !0:30 A. M. I took some flowers to Ditsy today. Roger’s address is 2514 NE 28th Portland ,Oregon 97128.
Thank you Walt, for carrying on the mentoring and the inspiration!!!
God bless you!!!
Dan Corrigan
Corr

Comment made by Ed Lamont CIC, CRM Founder and President – Lamont Consulting Group posted on the Global Insurance Professionals Group on LinkedIn.com. See his website.

Wayne Bills Organizational Effectiveness Consultant, Speaker, Seminar Leader and Voice-Over Actor on the Brigham Young University Alumni group at LinkedIn

Ed, I can neither see absurdity nor over-generalization in my perspective.

It is a question of the children’s desire, not if it was good for the business. I know a lot of very unhappy children who were unable to lead a life of their own choice because they had to step into their parents footsteps. Looking at history, the life of the Rockefeller, Vanderbilt and Morgan kids does not sound like a life I would have wanted for my children. But then I always cared more about my children’s happiness than my business.

So maybe you won’t consider my point of view a depth of knowledge, but I see it as a depth of compassion. Thanks.

Posted by Max J. Pucher Chief Architect at ISIS Papyrus Software, author and keynote speaker

Hi Max,

I could not agree less with points 1,2, and 4. As for point 3 – John D. Rockefeller,Jr., J. Pierpont Morgan, and William Vanderbilt are excellent examples children who followed there parents footsteps into business. There are always exceptions, James Hazen Hyde, Henry Harkness Flagler, and most Vanderbilt and Astor grand children. But, to say “only really stupid parents of brilliant parents demand from their children to step into their business footsteps.” is an absurd over-generalization and bring no depth of knowledge to the discuusion.

By the way, your post “The End of Capitalism?”, thoughts on free markets, Alan Greenspan, and the mess we’re in are brilliant and dead on right!

All the best from a committed capitalist,

Ed

Posted by Ed Lamont CIC, CRM Founder and President – Lamont Consulting Group

I would have thrown Roger out anyway.

First: What my grandpa could say in Heaven is none of his business and he would not know.

Second Life Insurance has nothgin to do with the subject of succession.

Third, only really stupid parents demand from their children to step into their footsteps.

Fourth, who says that there is a heaven …

Posted by Max J. Pucher Chief Architect at ISIS Papyrus Software, author and keynote speaker

Great story. When you ask thoughtful questions, you let your (buyer, spouse, kids, “Sonny”, or anyone else) lead themselves to their answer. Done skillfully, the answer is often what the questioner sought as well. It beats lecturing or in Sonny’s case, being lectured.

Ed Lamont CIC, CRM Founder and President – Lamont Consulting Group