Bart, you've already heard this above, but that was an excellent, insightful post. Hopefully it will help the people complaining about their floundering guilds redirect themselves towards success.
And the El Jefe and Exulted Pooba bit...priceless.
I think this post can serve as a great reference not only for the people trying to get a new guild up and running but also for the established GMs as well. Hopefully everyone can learn from what Bart has said and take what you can from it.
Nicely done!