Now a four-star general, he was well along in a professional transition from battlefield commander to quasi-diplomat.
"This has been a time of great personal and professional transition for each of us," they said in the statement.
"The management is grateful that the board has taken these wide-ranging decisions, in a dispassionate climate, and in time to facilitate a professional transition," Mr. Gallois said.
They have four children, ages 13 to 21. "This has been a time of great personal and professional transition for each of us," they said.
Although Mike Davis, the interim coach who replaced Knight, was peppered with questions about his personal and professional transition, Krzyzewski gave mostly innocuous answers to the news media by telephone.
In fact, Mr. Birnbaum's professional transition into the art world came decades earlier, when he was completing some research for his doctorate, which focused on the branch of philosophy known as phenomenology, at Columbia University in New York.
Mr. Darling's appointment reverses his last professional transition, which took him out of a thriving contemporary art environment — the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles — to Seattle, where he became only the second curator of that museum's modern and contemporary collection.
Unfortunately, no separate statistics exist for the commercial field with regard to remaining intentions, early contract termination or professional transition.
For Pardo, the most important question we have to ask ourselves is "why?" This key question needs to be at the inception of any personal or professional transition.
In 1911, he again found himself in professional transition, accepting the position of chairman in an interdisciplinary department at Princeton University which incorporated history, politics, and economics.
