I certainly would agree with you that the power needs to rest with you in determining where you need to go. As committees we can raise issues or concerns and bring them to your attention, but ultimately the authority of where you go and what you pursue needs to be your own. That point I think needs to be particularly stressed.
I also have some concerns with some of the vernacular that's used. We're talking about foundations as being these awful, horrible things, but the reality is the Foundation for Innovation and many others do serve very useful functions. I think while we're trying to incrementally improve our accountability process we do have to exercise a certain degree of caution to not set labels. Earlier you had mentioned bureaucrats, but I would also include foundations and some of the good work they do. I suggest that we be judicious and careful about the type of wording and vernacular we use to describe these situations, in order not to create a situation in which we give false impressions about some of the good things they do.