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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (19854)	6/15/2002 6:43:54 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Ray, I think the underlying problem [having pondered it during my BP Oil days as particular types got promoted] is that to be the boss, people have to seriously want to be the boss. Those who seriously want to be the boss, ipso facto, are unfit to be the boss. I think that might be a reason why royalty has had such a good innings. The baby gets dumped in the deep end and told they are the boss and they'd better get used to it whether they like it or not. That process seems to give their ego some neutrality somehow. They don't have to prove anything other than they are fit to be the boss. So they try to be a good boss. Something like that anyway. Some guy in Greece a couple of thousand years ago came up with a scheme to choose who should be asked to please be the boss. Mq