The Editor's Take: Let’s All Survive, Then Thrive

Virtually all the articles I read in BusinessWeek, Fortune, The New York Times business section and other business media are genuinely depressing. And when it comes to the retail community, if you’re not on the Wal-Mart Express, your numbers are heading downward.

What do we do about all this, kids? Fold up our tents and go home? Of course not. There’s business out there to be had, at least somewhere. We all need to change our thinking and concern ourselves with surviving this year.