“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.” – Charles Darwin

It seems that everywhere you turn today, there’s an onslaught of bad news: companies laying off significant portions of their workforces, markets depressed, commodities at low prices, and the economy in peril. There is a high amount of financial and economic global distress, and we’re inundated with it.

IROs don’t have to look very far. It’s affecting our organizations in various ways: credit crunches, difficulty raising funds for operations or new ventures, decreased stock prices, negative media coverage, and layoffs. And always, there is the reality of unhappy shareholders.