How to Turn a Crisis Into a New Career

Crisis can be the best thing for a career. That is, if you don't panic and know how to leverage that bottom to your advantage.

Take U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Former girlfriend Lillian McEwen portrays him as a binge drinker and excessive consumer of pornography. Thomas can frame that attack as just another test for a human being to endure. Guess who will come out better in the court of public opinion?