I’m surprised and disappointed that Mr. Leonhardt has chosen a public forum to question the management decisions of those who came after him. It seems extremely bad form to me.

Once a management team takes control, it is indeed now their team to do with as they please. If they find an entrenched layer of management that doesn’t see a bigger picture, it is their right to make changes. Or nurture them. Their call. For a person who sold their interest in that team long ago to then publicly lambaste his successors is confusing at best. What’s to be gained?

I’ve had agency successors whose tactics I didn’t agree with. Oh well! Not my call anymore. Bigger and better fish to fry.

Let go, sir. Move on. Focus your precious time on wrapping your head and dreams around another venture instead of looking backward and questioning the decisions of others. If they succeed, they succeed. If they fail, they fail. This tsk-tsking serves no good purpose…it certainly doesn’t make you look like the kind of leader I’d want to work for.

Rather than not wasting acquired talent, my advice is not wasting your reputation and time focusing on the past.