Pride

[GaryVoshol]

Hopefully you can take pride in the fact that you have trained them so well they can carry on without you. In the workplace there are two doomsday scenarios: "If Gary should get hit by a bus ..." or "If Gary wins the lottery and quits tomorrow ..." I had a modification on that when I accepted early retirement from Chrysler. My last day was Wednesday before Thanksgiving (2008); on Monday morning I got a phone call at home. "EPA is thinking about changing X, how would we do that?"

Teams, as much as businesses, need to plan for the future and plan for succession as much as success. Your experience here could be the foundation for a CA or KPCB Entrepreneurship Award.