Thursday was another one of those all-too-familiar days where markets imploded, stock prices cratered, and billions of dollars of shareholder value were wiped away.
I was sitting in the heart of Silicon Valley working with one of our clients in the semiconductor industry – an industry being decimated by the geopolitical news of tariffs – while the world crumbled around us.
By now, most business leaders are used to being in crisis. Between the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the financial industry meltdown of 2008, and the dot-com bust of the early 2000s, industry veterans have experienced a great deal and can demonstrate remarkable resilience.
Typically, it's easy to brush it off and think that it’s just cyclical, and it will all come back. But this time, it feels a little different.
Here’s why, from a business acumen perspective, this crisis isn’t just another insignificant blip on the radar:
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