Shaft and I were walking to the parking garage earlier this week …<\/p>\n
It was around 7:00 p.m.<\/p>\n
Eastern Standard Time.<\/p>\n
Cold and dark.<\/p>\n
We were gabbing about something … laughing … I think we were mocking ourselves about something at the time.<\/p>\n
But when we got off level 9 of the parking garage …<\/p>\n
Out of the blue, he affirmatively tells me …<\/p>\n
“I’m running the meeting on Thursday.<\/i>”<\/p>\n
“Why?<\/i>”<\/p>\n
“I’m running the meeting on Thursday.<\/i>”<\/p>\n
“What? Do you think OBP and I’ll get into it or something? You don’t think I can run the meeting?<\/i>”<\/p>\n
“I’m just saying … I’m running the meeting.<\/i>”
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\nWe got in his car and he drove me down the ramp to level 4 where my car was parked.<\/p>\n
Sensing my new mood … Shaft says as I’m closing the door,<\/p>\n
“Hey, it’s still your firm.<\/i>”<\/p>\n
We’ve been trying to get Shaft, Spuddy, OBP and me together for a few weeks now … to discuss and decide what’s going to be the future of things at firm … my involvement, delegation of duties, delegation of financial responsibilities, firm name … those sorta things. We agreed to make it happen on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n
And I’ve been thinking a great deal about what my future involvement at the firm will be ever since walking to the parking garage with Shaft and having that conversation.<\/p>\n
Now it has nothing to do with him “running the meeting?<\/i>” Though usually I’m accustomed to being the one running meetings, there are meetings where he has run in the past … that he has controlled.<\/p>\n
But we’ve always talked about it beforehand … “Do you think I should run it?<\/i>” or “Do you think you should run it?<\/i>” ….<\/p>\n
Never the affirmative definitive … “I’m going to run it.<\/i>”<\/p>\n
The tone in his voice … authority, decisiveness, certainty … conveyed that he was taking control of the firm …<\/p>\n
And that made me very happy … he had taken the reins and was running with it.<\/p>\n
They definitely needed it … I’ve been distracted lately and wasn’t getting things done that needed to get done.<\/p>\n
In reality, it’s never been “my” firm … it’s always been a collective … first Shaft and me, then Shaft, OBP and me, and finally Shaft, OBP, Spuddy and me … but a lot of the formation work, start up efforts in the early years were mine, I put a lot of sweat into it …<\/p>\n
And over the years they’ve all deferred to me and let me run with, make … pretty much any decision I wanted to make.<\/p>\n
Pretend that I was in charge … that it was my firm.<\/p>\n
But clearly,<\/p>\n
My time has now passed.<\/p>\n
And I miss it already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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