Posted by
KsReaganite on Sunday, February 20, 2011 2:04:18 PM
One of the most poignant lessons I learnt during my days in corporate America was that of exiting with class. My former employer's CEO is a gregarious Cajun who loves a profit as much as, if not more so, than any of his peers. When a big client decided to end its contract and go with a competitor, the CEO asked us to go "above and beyond the normal" to ensure that the transition of the client's platform to its new vendor was handled seamlessly and cause no complaint. We put our best resources to that project-a project designed to lose us money-and ensured that seamless transition. Every company, ruler, or lover can be all impressive and awesome when wooing...that is the nature of the beast. Only those with decency can be classy when time comes to call it quits, especially when the quitting is not made of their own choice.
For all his faults Hosni Mubarak showed class, something that is largely alien to the likes of Libya's Gaddafi and Yemen's Saleh.