With a cluster of bad events we can become very discouraged. It is easy to justify this discouragement. Employees respect managers that will do what it takes in bad times. A trick to getting through bad clusters is to remember good clusters. Success can lull a business to death.
Success builds complacency and a 'comfort zone'.
Chaos theory teaches us to expect the unexpected. This is even truer with people than nature. It is important to try to understand the cause and effect nature of life and life's events. It is also important to sometimes back away and move on. Chaos theory teaches us that many events do not have a meaningful cause.