In reading news stories about these tough economic times and in talking to numerous engineers and manufacturers in the field, I've become aware that we're all standing at the edge of our own abyss, and all of our abysses are connected. For some, what keeps them awake at night is a business loan they cannot get to meet payroll. For others, it's the people they have to face to lay them off. And for others, it's having been laid off or the fear of getting laid off. And for many more, it's carrying on without one or more co-workers who are no longer with the company and who won't be replaced. We really don't know what's next, except we'll be asked to do more with less. We're dealing with emotions on a mass scale we haven't seen since 9/11: Despair, fear, anger. We got through 9/11 by communicating more, and more deliberately. Eventually, the gears of society meshed, the economy regained momentum, and we resumed our frenetic pace.
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