The Strong—and Smart—Survive
There’s nothing like an economic downturn to separate the pretenders from the contenders in business. Anybody can look like a brilliant business leader when the stock market is on a seemingly endless bull run and the economy is booming, but it’s during periods of economic adversity that you discover who really knows what they’re doing—whether on Wall Street, in corporate America, or in the CEO offices of the small and mid-sized emerging businesses we count on to provide jobs and generate the revenues necessary to drive the economy forward. The historic and devastating economy of the past year has taken this Darwinian principle to its ultimate expression—weeding among even the contenders to identify the best of the best.
