I’ve been thinking lately about how to balance two opposing goals. One is keeping our economy open so that we avoid a deep recession. The second is containing the COVID-19 Pandemic. Companies have these kinds of seemingly opposing conflicts. A decade ago, British Petroleum was balancing the need to increase oil production (through drilling at sea) with the need to protect water and workers. More recently, Boeing was balancing the need to get the 737Max to market at an attractive overall cost against the safety needs of travelers. In the early 2000s, the Boards of Directors of US banks wanted higher stock prices through growth in assets without depleting capital. We all know these balancing acts went awry because leaders pushed one goal at the expense of another, leading to major crises. Further, the solutions to these imbalances were all costly. Pushing up…