But what if you ignored that sage advice and are still alive and kicking?

FORBES: See Your Estate Lawyer Now--If You Are Rich Or Frying A Turkey

While Bezos is still alive and kicking the dot-com boom that he represented peaked out three months after he appeared on the cover.

FORBES: Is Larry Summers Andreessen Horowitz's Kiss of Death?

By assuming the best ideas will rise to the top, leaders often throw the best ideas to the wolves, and they are truly shocked to find out months later the great ideas have been forgotten and marginal ideas are still alive and kicking.

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Supported by a QE II asset purchase program still alive and kicking through the end of June, we estimate that this, our current monetary inflation cycle, will show a cumulative monetary infusion of about 37% by the time QE II is over, 77% the size of the last inflation cycle .

FORBES: Monetary Watch June 2011, Inflation prospects post QE II

We've gotta give Microsoft props forwarding on to a competitor like that (or, at least props for following the terms of a 2005 legal settlement), and in its defense, the URGE store Microsoft started with MTV is still going strong, but with Real slowly moving over to their own DRM, FairUse4WM alive and kicking, and now the MSN Music shut-down, things aren't looking great for PlaysForSure.

ENGADGET: Microsoft quits the MSN Music store