January's LX Briefing is counting the cash with two articles on surviving and thriving in today's economy.

As Tony Bingham says in an Editorial in LX, "One of the toughest challenges of the current economic crisis is that companies must act even when they don't know what is coming next or how long recovery will take. But one fact is certain: old ways of doing things are not coming back." See page 2 of LX briefing to read the entire Editorial.

Then on page 7, Paul Harris explores the ways in which training execs and suppliers are ready and waiting to launch innovative cost-saving initiatives in the article "What Recession?"