That is why, from very early on, I have talked about building on six pillars: business, finance, markets, economics, technology and power (politics and government).
But I offer that any economic system that leans solely on the one legged pillar of business, is riding for a fall.
"Previously, politics in Bolivia was done on three pillars: the business community, the Church, and the U.S. Embassy," Walter Chávez, a former Peruvian insurgent who ran one of Morales's Presidential campaigns, told me.
People who run companies don't start out as pillars of business, character and morality.
Reginald Boulos, a pillar of the business community who said he had stayed neutral in the race, said many business leaders initially doubted Mr. Martelly's readiness but grew more comfortable at the professional nature of his campaign.
WeWork, which lost $1.2 billion over the first three quarters of 2018 according to an FT report, is rebranding to shift attention from its real estate play to a broader blend of living and educational services that now comprise the three pillars of its business (to be clear, the largest pillar is its real estate properties).
Exporting was a key pillar of my business, Tangle Teezer, from the word go.
So did Mr. Silverman's standing as a pillar of the business world.
She has been working with the British Fashion Council's business pillar James MacArthur to, as she says, "gain professionalism and a better set up.
He had been as low as 7-1 for the Gold Cup itself when ruled out in February and those odds may have been generous, as the pair he beat in the Pillar, See More Business and Go Ballistic, finished first and second in the big race in his absence.
