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The Resilient Entrepreneur

Growing a company 📈 in uncertain times 🔥🧨 is like running a marathon — it demands grit, strategy, and resilience. As a tech entrepreneur 💻, active reserve officer 🪖, and father of three 👩👦👦, I share practical insights and write about entrepreneurship, leadership, and crisis management. When I’m not solving problems, I recharge and find inspiration in the breathtaking mountains 🏔 around Zermatt 🇨🇭. Sign up for weekly insights delivered to your inbox every Friday!

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The Resilient Entrepreneur, Edition #86

The Resilient Entrepreneur, Edition #86 Hi there I hope you had a great week! Here are the topics in today's edition: A Hitchhiker’s Guide to AI Bullshit Bingo Reading the Cyber Commanders’ Handbook: Lessons For Entrepreneurs Please reach out if you have comments, questions, or suggestions for articles! Talk soon 👋Tom LEADERSHIP FOR RESILIENT ENTREPRENEURS A Hitchhiker’s Guide to AI Bullshit Bingo AI bullshit bingo is everywhere, but this article is really about leadership and management in...

The Resilient Entrepreneur, Edition #85 Hi there I hope you had a great week! Here are the topics in today's edition: Don’t Trust the Time Management Gurus The Compliance Trap: Stop Pretending Your Team Read the PDFs Please reach out if you have comments, questions, or suggestions for articles! Talk soon 👋Tom LEADERSHIP FOR RESILIENT ENTREPRENEURS Don’t Trust the Time Management Gurus No single time management technique will work for every scenario. And no single time management technique...

The Resilient Entrepreneur, Edition #84 Hi there I hope you had a great week! Here are the topics in today's edition: Sick Leave Uncovered: The Costs You See and the Benefits You Don’t Why Incorporating a Company in Switzerland Feels Like the Stone Age Please reach out if you have comments, questions, or suggestions for articles! Talk soon 👋Tom KickKerK LEADERSHIP FOR RESILIENT ENTREPRENEURS Sick Leave Uncovered: The Costs You See and the Benefits You Don’t Sick leave exposes the tension...

The Resilient Entrepreneur, Edition #83 Hi there I hope you had a great week! Here are the topics in today's edition: Bigger Isn’t Always Better: Finding Your Growth Projection Style Why “It’ll Be Done Tomorrow” Never Works Out Please reach out if you have comments, questions, or suggestions for articles! Talk soon 👋Tom LEADERSHIP FOR RESILIENT ENTREPRENEURS Bigger Isn’t Always Better: Finding Your Growth Projection Style Are you an entrepreneur who believes bigger is always better? Or are...

The Resilient Entrepreneur, Edition #82 Hi there I hope you had a great week! Here are the topics in today's edition: Read and Sign on Steroids: How to Make Compliance Smarter Compliance Overreaction: How Common Sense Gets Lost in Corporate Gift Rules Please reach out if you have comments, questions, or suggestions for articles! Talk soon 👋Tom LIFE HACKS FOR RESILIENT ENTREPRENEURS Read and Sign on Steroids: How to Make Compliance Smarter Read and sign is not compliance. But it’s a start. In...

The Resilient Entrepreneur, Edition #81 Hi there I hope you had a great week! Here are the topics in today's edition: The Anchor I Return to When Entrepreneurship Gets Messy Features That Save Users from Themselves: The Unsung Heroes of Software Please reach out if you have comments, questions, or suggestions for articles! Talk soon 👋Tom LEADERSHIP FOR RESILIENT ENTREPRENEURS The Anchor I Return to When Entrepreneurship Gets Messy You need a fallback when entrepreneurship gets messy. Mine...

The Resilient Entrepreneur, Edition #80 Hi there I hope you had a great week! Here are the topics in today's edition: One Month Projects: Why Anything Longer Is Too Complex Fast and Flexible Problem Solving with the OODA Loop Please reach out if you have comments, questions, or suggestions for articles! Talk soon 👋Tom KickKerK LEADERSHIP FOR RESILIENT ENTREPRENEURS One Month Projects: Why Anything Longer Is Too Complex In today’s fast-changing world, one-month projects work best. Learn why...

The Resilient Entrepreneur, Edition #79 Hi there I hope you had a great week! Here are the topics in today's edition: Walk but Never Run: Business Growth Takes Patience Converting PDF into XML: Possibilities Beyond Copy-Paste Please reach out if you have comments, questions, or suggestions for articles! Talk soon 👋Tom LEADERSHIP FOR RESILIENT ENTREPRENEURS Walk but Never Run: Business Growth Takes Patience Entrepreneurs should walk but never run. Growth takes patience, like farming and...

The Resilient Entrepreneur, Edition #78 Hi there I hope you had a great week! Here are the topics in today's edition: JIRA Dashboards That Actually Work: Simple Setup, Big Impact Strategy in Real Life: Saying No Is the Hardest and Best Move Please reach out if you have comments, questions, or suggestions for articles! Talk soon 👋Tom LEADERSHIP FOR RESILIENT ENTREPRENEURS JIRA Dashboards That Actually Work: Simple Setup, Big Impact Learn how to use JIRA dashboards to keep an overview without...

The Resilient Entrepreneur, Edition #77 Hi there I hope you had a great week! Here are the topics in today's edition: Doing Business Globally: What Works on Paper Fails in Practice Never Be Unprepared - A Crisis Manual for Everyday Life Please reach out if you have comments, questions, or suggestions for articles! Talk soon 👋Tom KickKerK LIFE HACKS FOR RESILIENT ENTREPRENEURS Doing Business Globally: What Works on Paper Fails in Practice Whenever an entrepreneur who is doing business globally...