What's Your Exit Strategy

My friend Brent told me once that many professionals lack an exit strategy.  I agree.  If you think what you're doing today will last forever you're...well...crazy.  This comes from a man who has had more than one balloon popped by change.  It took me a number of years, but now I see change as a friend and not an enemy.  Your next chapter is inevitably held up by hanging on when you should let go, and man is it tough to let go.

Disclaimer here; if you're called to see it through to the end, even when the odds are against you, then you should do it.  That's destiny at work.  When I was ceremoniously escorted out of corporate America all of my exit doors were shut before I could do anything...or so I thought.  Don't mean to make you wince, but I was supposed to lose.  I was supposed have things turned upside down.  Without those events, I'm confident I wouldn't be the man I am today. 

In many ways and exit strategy can be a win masked as a loss.

See this piece from the The Washington Post on the record industry.  What a last gasp for air. Do you think the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) needs an exit strategy?  Can any individual or organization afford to not have one?