Thanks a lot, Tom for your support!
You are correct, it really isn't cut and dried.
And believe it or not, I think a lot of GCers are reading and learning from this thread. We tend to oversimplify the history of any GLO without taking into consideration there are a lot of factors, external and internal that play into the direction the org goes in their future years.
This is a great thread and I'm glad I started it (oops, I mean FinerWoman10A91)