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...What Tiger and his advisers have managed to do so far is make this a much bigger story," says Michael Sitrick, CEO of the crisis-management firm Sitrick & Co. "There's this mind-set that if you hunker down and take the 'high road,' it will go away." The publicist points to Bill and Hillary Clinton as exemplars of the "wife first" approach: once Hillary said it was between Bill and her, the heat went down. "If he can get his wife to support him, I'd pick one print and one broadcast outlet and then never talk about...
...really don't know. But I can tell you I will have had a lot of experience in leading during a time of sustained crisis. The biggest lesson is that you have to play offense. You can't just hunker down. You have to continue to lead and push forward despite all the challenges, and you have to have a skin as thick as a rhinoceros...
...salad bars to ski teams. U.S. colleges and universities suffered, on average, a 23% endowment drop in the second half of last year, according to a study by a group of campus business officers. That reduction in funding has set off a scramble to freeze hiring, cut hours and hunker down until the economy improves. "Institutions will have to manage with less," says Oberlin's vice president for finance, Ron Watts. Here's a look at how schools are getting creative with their wallets...
Would you say there is a silver lining in the sense that American consumers have to hunker down and get back to some older values...
Recessions tend to shake up the corporate status quo. Under the stress of collapsing demand and tighter credit, companies that seemed solid are exposed as dangerously flawed, while others panic, slash costs, hunker down - and pass up chances to gain on their competition in ways that would be impossible in a normal economic climate...