I just finished reading an interview with Jim Collins in Fortune magazine. Jim is a deep thinker and relentless researcher and it’s worthwhile listening to what he’s learned about businesses getting through the tough times. Something that really hit me was Jim’s strategy to succeed at climbing El Capitan on his 50th birthday. He partnered up. And guess who he took with? The greatest climber in the world, Tommy Caldwell. If a storm came up on the climb, Jim wanted to be surrounded by the best. It’s not the plan, he said, that’ll make the difference - it’s the people you have with you. I’m convinced that successful people always knew they couldn’t do it alone. I now see that however tempted we are to go “solo”, it’s never really an option for success - especially when there’s a storm on the horizon.