Walking a tightrope is a dangerous profession. I watched once, as a tight rope walker moved cautiously across the wire to the other side and I noticed several things. He was aware of his mission early on and knew he had to stay focused on his assignment. His mission was not just to get to the other side but was to not let anything grab his attention so that he would begin to fall. A tightrope walker will never make it to the other side of the ledge if they loose focus of their first and most important mission. You could be asking me why I have taken such space to state this truth several times. The simple issue at hand should be to focus on policy rather than on personalities. To expand this idea even more, I can say that a tightrope walker should learn from the airplane wing walker’s manual of survival. To be a successful airplane wing walker, there is only one rule that must be followed. That rule is: “Never turn loose of something until you have something else to hold on to.” As ...