As we enter 2009, I want to say "thankyou" to Michael McKinney for this blog site to date and everyone else who has taken time to contribute comments on it. To date, I have always been impressed by the seriousness of purpose and resolve of the bloggers on this site who foster an atmosphere of genuine appreciation for the subject of Leadership. Now as we enter the New Year; we can take pride that we were part of this effort to help expand a greater awareness on the need for demonstrable progress on the subject of Leadership. Especially now, as we have witnessed so many lapses in leadership resonate across so many different environs. Let me start the new year by simply saying that real leaders are very human, very normal, untitled, unappreciated and often underpaid and there actions will never make any headlines. There is a poem from Wordsworth which partially reads "each minute and unseen part; for the gods see everywhere" whose meaning most clearly describes the reality for most leadership actions. There leadership and its effects will only really be seen by heaven which too me sounds pretty good.