Liz Smith, chief executive of Bloomin' Brands, proved her mettle early in her career when she handled a challenging company integration following a Kraft Foods acquisition.
And as the Gusinsky affair moves to its next, more political, phase, the spotlight will be on Mr. Putin's ability to handle a challenge that has now spread far beyond the boundaries of Mr. Gusinsky's media empire.
The senator must also decide how to handle a challenge in his home state: he faces re-election for his Senate seat in 2016 but Kentucky law forbids candidates from seeking two offices in the same election.
His new employer, the Calhoun Port Authority in Texas, just hired an attorney to handle a lawsuit challenging Farenthold's hiring as illegal, the Victoria Advocate reported late last week.
Referring to his wife, Mr. Gore went on: "They had a session for Tipper, me and the siblings while my son was recovering and just went through the reasons why some families find it useful to sit down and talk about the way each family member is handling a challenge of that kind".
Everyone handles a challenge in their own way.
Studies show that regular meditation or mindfulness exercises cannot only improve heart health, it cuts down on mind wandering (such as obsessing over that catty remark from a coworker or how you could have handled a challenge better), and lowers levels of depression and anxiety.
But I wondered how she and her creative team would handle a real challenge to design a guerilla marketing campaign around a product that the public at large would be predisposed to dislike, sold by an unpopular company.
