Marshall here. Welcome back to the Realignment.

Today's episode is all about how companies, governments, and everyday people

reckon with an economic catastrophe.

The topic is the book, Crash Landing, the Inside Story of how the world's biggest companies

survived an economy on the brink.

Obviously, in reference to the March 2020 COVID lockdown period where the economy was shut down and everyone from

CEOs to everyday people had to actually navigate those problems.

Now what makes this conversation so interesting is that we're talking about the COVID crash.

We're also having a broader conversation about how resilient our economy is, how CEOs and other leaders

are capable of handling an economic shock and how previous crises such as the 2008 financial

one and now this one are shaping how we're going to move forward.

This conversation could be about COVID.

It could be about a possible economic crisis caused by a Taiwan conflict.

It could be about anything.

The overall takeaway that I brought from this episode is that we need to focus on economic resilience, both in our personal lives

but also at a company and governmental level.

Every crisis is going to have a takeaway and that to me seems to be the one that's most core at the center of this one.

Before we get into the episode, just a quick note, I sent this out on the substack yesterday

but the realignment is switching back from three episodes a week to two episodes.

I have to just humble myself and admit that it is harder and harder and harder to keep up with all the reading I need to do

but also just make sure I'm putting out consistent A's instead of C's and B's just so I could pat myself on the back of the head

and say, you know what, you did three episodes a week. Good for you.

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