Again, some really great feedback here. Still just grabbing a quick view over lunch.
Something Mirage said above in an early post, I found relevant. The part about "faking" an MLC.
I would submit that IF the WAS is labelling themselves MLC. It may just as easily be an excuse as it may be a realization that they may be in a crises transition.
OTOH, for what I've read here and on other forums and books, someone who is in MLC... don't recognize it as such.
I have read maybe one or two threads over the past year and half here, where the WAS actually made that suggestion themselves. All other times, it is an observation made by LBS due to very... odd... behaviours by the WAS.
