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Lessons from space?

Applying the model of 1980s cult sci-fi show Battlestar Galactica, Robert Strohmeyer of PC World shows, with 10 lessons, how employers can survive the current economic downturn, ‘2. Don't neglect training: In episode 4 of season 1, an explosion on the hangar deck wiped out many of Galactica's top pilots, forcing Starbuck to begin training new pilots.

Had Adama and company been training new talent all along, the fleet would have been prepared for such an emergency.’ Since economists and politicians appear to be willing to try anything to halt the floodwaters, why not take these lessons from space?