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Times Of Economic Crises Can Change What The Competitive Landscape Looks Like, Because When, For Example, You Have Boom Times, Capital Is Easy To Come By, Growth Is Easy, Sometimes What You Focus On Is, You Know, How To Accelerate In The Boom. During Economic Crises, The Question Is, The Companies That Come Out Of, You Know, That Are Sailing Through That With The Best Liquidity, Both Assets On The Balance Sheet, Making Money, Ability To Grow Their Businesses, Get A Disproportionate Competitive Advantage.

Everyone, You Know, During Crises Times, Is Much More Focused On, Okay, How Do We Get The Boat Completely Seaworthy, Sailing Along Well, And Everything Going Well? And So As Long As You're Communicating How The General Strategy Of The Company And How The Work They Can Do To Add To That And To Make That More Successful And The Thing That They Can Contribute To That, That Is Generally Very Motivating For Employees In Crisis Times.

Most Of The Ethical Dilemmas That I Have Faced Have All Been In The Category Of, You Know, I Know Something And What's My Obligation To Disclose It. So, For Example, You See People Make A Mistake In The Contract That You're Making Between The Businesses And Do You Disclose It Or Do You Reveal It? And Generally Speaking, The Way That I Solve These Is I Kind Of Go Through A List Of, You Know, What's The Most, What Are The Obligations And Constituencies And In What Order?

When You Think About Being Contrarian, You Have To Think About - how Is It That Smart People Will Disagree With Me, Disagree With Me ...from A Position Of Intelligence, And There Is Something That I Know That They Don't Know, That Will Actually In Fact Play Out To Be True.

When Thinking About How To Deploy Kind Of Professional And Social Networking Into Your Business, It's Really Not A Question Of If, It's A Question Of When. And The Reason Is, Just Think About The Fact That Those Businesses That Adopt New Technologies To Operate Efficiently And Use Them To Get A Competitive Edge Are The Businesses That In Fact, You Know, It Becomes One More Competitive Advantage. Whether It's A Fax Machine Or A Mobile Phone Or A New Way Of Doing Financing Or Any Of These Things, You Know, These Are Key Things To Do.