Thanks, this is helpful, and in the general direction I'm settling on. The heart-to-heart with the CEO was indeterminate. I am focusing on getting the guy's des

Thanks, this is helpful, and in the general direction I'm settling on. The heart-to-heart with the CEO was indeterminate. I am focusing on getting the guy's description aimed at biz-dev, an area that will be objectively measurable. If he's successful, we'll just have an overcompensated biz-dev guy on our hands, an improvement on the current situation. Regarding his value, I believe he's providing some emotional value to the CEO which is not material to the interests of the company. This is one of those 'soft-benefit' areas to my mind -- the CEO has gotta be happy, or things just won't work. On the other hand, there's gotta be a budget for CEO happiness, and I don't think we are in agreement about the appropriate size of that budget, or how much is being spent here.