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The economic turn-around is inevitable. Planning your firm's human capital and risk management strategies now will help you prepare to profit upon its arrival

Looking back on the events of the past 12 months—auto giants filing for bankruptcy, tax-payer-funded bailouts, unemployment climbing into the double digits—it is difficult to take signs of an economic recovery seriously. And to contemplate profiting from it? That’s an even bigger stretch.

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