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Harvey Mackay is a bestselling author whose books include the mega-sellingbSwim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive/b; and a nationally syndicated columnist, whose weekly business advice appears in fifty newspapers around the United States. He is an active corporate CEO and a prominent civic leader. He and his family live in Minneapolis.bA Network Never Sleeps/bbrbrOur foursome had finished the usual Saturday morning round of golf. We were in the clubhouse doing the postmortem when Jerry said, "Last night I got a call. It was two in the morning. I won't tell you who it was because one of you might know him. He was semihysterical. His accountant had called him that afternoon and told him he was broke; his company couldn't make the payroll, and if he didn't retrieve the checks he'd written, there was a good chance he'd go to jail. The guy needed $20,000. The strange thing is, I hadn't talked to him in over ten years. He said the only reason he called me was that I used to be a close friend and that I knew he was a trustworthy guy. Well, I offered to lend him a few thousand dollars, but I didn't give him what he needed even though I could have.brbr"It got me thinking though," Jerry added. "What if it had been me? How many people could I realistically count on to bust a gut to help me out if I'd called them at 2 A.M.?"brbr"How many, Jerry?"brbr"Two, maybe three."brbrWe went around the table. The answers were about the same until they got to me.brbr"Fifty," I said.brbr"Come on, Harvey! That's B.S."brbr"No, it isn't," I said. "I've been ready to make the kind of call that Jerry got for nearly forty years. I never had to make it. I made fifty others like it instead. I've made 2 A.M. calls to find the absolutely best doctor in town in a family medical crisis; I've made them to get a valued employee out of a blackmail situation a@ÌÌÌÌÌÍ ¾Û€