>> I love the custom interface.
I love the marketing and sales component.
And when you get into executive management you have the entire program.
You have manufacturing.
You got the technical and research and development people, the quality control people.
The responsibility is brought
and the profitability requirements are pretty significant.
Most of our stockholder profile was with institutional investors
and so if you missed your numbers, they could very quickly have a disastrous effect
on the stock price, because large quantities of stock could be quickly manipulated
and I guess you'd always have that pressure.
I love dealing with the analyst though, you know that going to the quarterly shareholder meetings
and listening to the cranks and the people that thought that they could do the business better
than we could and that pretty high echelon and those meetings were,
took place in the Union League in Philadelphia
and it was definitely a suit and tie kind of environment.
I would say political survival, learning how to read the tea leaves of politics
in corporate America, knowing how to deal with some pretty heavy hitter type executives
that usually were somewhat older than I was trying to climb the ladder at the time
and basically surviving the process.
Not only because I delivered their expectations in terms of objectives,
but though I also had the correct image, the presentation skills, the capability to deal
with them at the executive level even when I was a junior executive,
you know I'm just trying to earn my sparse.
It's a challenging thing and yet it's a very interesting thing
to be able to survive the climb.