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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lastkidpicked" data-source="post: 347350" data-attributes="member: 237">You just summed up the problem.  How do you measure success?Is it how much J.R. can increase the size of the company?   We often hear the phrase,  "I'm going to make Ewing Oil the largest independent in Texas" which he did, if Westar is not independent and instead is one of the Seven Sisters.Is success measured by the overall health of the company?  Mac (working for Westar at the time) did say,  "Ewing Oil is a good company.  They have undeveloped fields and we have the money to develop them."Is it increasing the quarterly profits of the company?  This was exactly the measurement Jock used to set up the contest for Ewing Oil.Interesting questions. . .</blockquote>