Mo Ostin Remembered: How He Transcended Tectonic Events in the Music Business to Give Warner Bros. Records Its Soul

variety.com:

Bob Merlis Decades ago, during the early part of my 29-year tenure at Warner Bros. Records (when it still had the “Bros” in the name), I thought about what would happen if we ever lost Mo Ostin.

I admit it was a dark thought but even then I knew that the company was something special in the business as a direct result of Mo’s outlook and personality.There’s a song with the lyric, “You don’t know what you’ve got until you lose it.” But in the case of Mo Ostin, we knew what we had and were thankful that we didn’t lose it. … until just now.

The consolation here is that we lost him after he lived a long and fruitful professional and personal life that had a massive impact on the music business and those with whom he worked.

Notice that the conjunction here is “with” and not “for” because that’s how it was. His emphasis was on collaborative work, not ego-fueling self-aggrandizement that’s so common in business (and politics) these days.