Member-only story
CRISIS MANAGEMENT FOR RESILIENT ENTREPRENEURS
Jazz over Orchestra: The Secret Sauce for Times of Crisis
Master your tunes, get used to the swing, and you will be fine in just about any situation you can possibly encounter.
No plan has ever survived reality.
Yet planning is indispensable.
That’s a fact, and certainly not a criticism of your planning capabilities. It’s a fact in daily management life, and it’s even more so in times of crisis.
So what can you do? Let’s turn to music for an analogy.
The Analogy…
I am an avid saxophone player, although not a very good one. I have limited time to play the saxophone, as I spend my days running Yonder, a B2B SaaS company, and on top I try to juggle raising three kids and being an active reserve officer in the Swiss Armed Forces.
When I picked up saxophone lessons after a 20-year break since touching an instrument for the last time, I had to make a conscious choice about my level of ambition and the time I would be able to invest in learning a new instrument.
I wanted to be quick in learning the basics — mastering my tunes, getting used to the…
