Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business.
Number one, cash is king… number two, communicate… number three, buy or bury the competition.
A strategy is something like, an innovative new product globalization, taking your products around the world be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch you can motivate people with be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message.
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.