The industry's close breeding also requires arrangements to avoid business conflicts.
"Your friends talk sports and kids with you, but avoid business," one said to me.
They should also avoid business models premised on "the lowest costs for the maximum return".
Where possible they should use their leverage to avoid business relations doing the same.
Those candidates emphatically vowed to block spending and tax increases, avoid business-as-usual compromises, and — echoing the 2008 version of Obama — change the culture in Washington.
In 2009, New Jersey regulators decided that a joint venture between MGM Resorts International and Ho's daughter Pansy failed the state's requirement that casinos avoid business with "notorious or unsavory persons".
Schwarzman tries to avoid business meetings when he's in the Hamptons, but in June, 2006, Michael Klein, the chairman and co-chief executive of markets and banking at Citigroup, came over for lunch.
So they try to avoid business exit at any cost even if this means personally absorbing business losses.
I avoid business dinners and other such entanglements that require a commitment of time beyond that which is necessary to the actual task at hand.
To avoid business disruption, you must be able to imagine, prototype and test entirely new business models.
