
Try to look at the big picture and steer your company to avert crisis before it hits. The real question, though, is how will you handle the storm? Remember to keep a cool head and think through issues, don’t just respond. It’s easy to steer a ship through calm waters.

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”Īs a leader, you will have good times and bad. In our continuing series on great leadership we look to the lessons of Martin Luther King, Jr. Ultimately, through leadership and brute perseverance, two traits needed to succeed in today’s small business environment, he helped to unify a country divided by weakness and hatred.

Like Gandhi and Mandela, he advocated peaceful methods in a world that so often looks to violence to affect social change.
