Goodbye Kenny

Ken Lay - could not have happened to a nicer guy. My only regret is that he seemed to go to his grave insisting he did nothing wrong. That's the problem with very successful people. Many of them have huge egos. These egos propel them into the limelight. They give them confidence to keep going when everybody else tells them to quit. They make them appear "larger than life", and give others confidence in them. Unfortunately, it is this same quality, possesed in abundance by many powerful people, that makes them refuse introspection to a fatal measure; insisting they are right when simpler minds can see the truth through the haze of marketing spin. When rational, cold, factual analysis indicates otherwise. This quality, or curse, of the huge ego brings them down as fast as their meteoric rise. Because of all the things they can imagine; of all the great future potential they can envision, they can not and will not see the possibility...that they are just plain wrong.