Growing up in the 60s, we knew technology would change our world. We watched Star Trek and the Jetsons. We looked forward to having a wrist device like Dick Tracy used to see and talk to his team. We trusted our president when he said we would land a man on the moon! We believed anything would be possible in the next 50 years.

It was a Florida summer, just after my second year of college, that I developed an understanding of “Total Compensation.” I didn’t know it at the time. I only knew I had landed the coolest job in the world!

As a young child, one of the games that we would frequently play in the neighborhood when we had a gathering of children of diverse ages and athletic abilities was “Follow the Leader.” It could be as simple or complex as we wanted it to be...