Dear Next Generation: Several years ago, I caught a flight out of California to attend a funeral back east. During the final leg of my trip, I pulled out a business magazine I had purchased during a layover. An article featuring advice from several leading business giants caught my eye—especially one story in particular. The author was interviewing a CEO of a major global firm and asked him to share any insight gained through his years of experience. The executive shared a story of a time when he and his family were vacationing in India where they had an opportunity to travel on a guided safari, riding large pachyderms across the landscape. At predetermined points of interest along the route, the group would stop and dismount as their guide prepared to secure each elephant. He began by driving a steel stake about one foot deep into the ground with a …