It’s in the hardest times that people’s true colors come through. Those who routinely take shortcuts decide to cheat, while authentic leaders roll up their sleeves, don their hardhats, and begin to dig through the rock.
It is in these tumultuous times that the men are separated from the boys. This is also the time when those who have been taking the shortcuts all along will have their transgressions come to light. It is no fluke that, without a wildly growing economy, Madoff and other alleged bad guys are now being exposed—like the one tried to save himself from prosecution by faking his own death, parachuting out of his own plane.
