Estrada replaced Espiritu as finance secretary with the well-regarded Jose Pardo, who had held the trade and industry portfolio, named a six-man Economic Coordinating Council of top officials to bring badly-needed coherence and momentum to policy-making, and recruited five business elder statesmen as senior advisers.
The state ethics reform requires spouses of policy-making state employees to report any business activity that licensed or regulated by the state or any business he or she had with the state.
Its principal audiences include: the U.S. and international security policy-making communities, the news media, the global business and financial sector and individuals interested in U.S. security policy.
So far nothing new, but the point is: managers in business or policy realms realize they have to correctly anticipate change as part of decision-making leadership.