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Imagine the coming year, more economic, political and natural disasters, interfering with your business and personal plans.

From evacuation to mental health, building reflection muscle and becoming prepared to be fired tomorrow.

Are you ready, is your business insulated?

Free - no money required, just commitment, time and effort. So you have no excuse not to be ready. Will you invest the time in you and your business, to help your family thrive?

We believe you are worth it.

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2026 will see incredible disruption. How can the solo-entrepreneur or SMB be ready?
These top 3 risks reflect what is likely to occur, from a tariff tsunami, to AI phishing / spoofing to a race to tax corporations, chasing them across the globe.

Are you ready to exploit the opportunities, are you prepared to have your reputation challenged by an AI bot pretending to be you?

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Is your position, field or employer ready for the coming AI onslaught?

We breakdown the stages of AI adoption rollout, across which markets are primed for penetration and what role cultural preference plays in acceptance of AI automation.
What can you do, what steps are available to you to mitigate this risk? We layout a roadmap for your to consider, to be ready as you can, for the coming tsunami.

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The why - because we exist in a time of increased political, economic and natural disasters, all of which are out of our control. They influence and impact our lives, yet we have such little say in their why.

Chaos loves uncertainty - that's why we created Mastering Risk, the preparedness, risk, resilience, business continuity, cyber protocol and a series of educational oppritnities.

Listen, it's free and you might just figure out the "how".

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Seize the Day, choose to be responsible for your outcomes and dominate this world.
We hear that all the time, but how?

Three free ways:
First, own your life - your physical, mental and financial health are all your responsibility, no one is coming to save you and it is your responsibility to pay your bills.
Second, know the rules - the political and economic overlords / owners will establish he regulations yo must follow, to build a business that is successful and brilliant. Know them inside and out, leverage the risk and rules to find success.
Third, exposure to and dependancy on CI - this modern, technologically enabled world depends on critical infrastructure to operate. Understanding how and where your business is dependant on access to CI will improve your odds of success, mitigate risk and set you up for success. 

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The pressure is relentless, to adopt even the most unique offerings of AI, under the symbolic - or real - threat of corporate irrelevancy. Whether presented in the form of the latest influencer YouTube video, an offering to learn AI in 28 days, or the advocacy for the firing of the entire white collar workforce, we are inundated with the threat of being at the precipice of a revolution. 

As the creator of the moniker, “non-apocalyptic, evidence based risk, resilience and preparedness education”, I thought a bit of reflection was in order, to both quell the hysteria, but to highlight the real threats. 

AI is considered to be the final chapter of the fourth Industrial Revolution, not in a doomsday sense, but the evolution of the Internet of Things (IOT) - i.e. connected devices, cloud storage and automated manufacturing. The brain if you will, that will run all the previous elements of the 4th revolution, which in an ideal sense provides for the continuous operation and connectivity of whatever portions of society we wish to “upload” to the cloud / AI management. 

The perceived threat from AI is replacement. While the UAE government has stated that they’ll embrace AI in all public sector operations, but with the clear intention of improving services offered to citizens and guests, not to replace the workforce. However, what we see in most places is a race to automate human activities, to reduce the largest line item on most balance sheets - labour. AI is framed as not a tool to improve, but an opportunity to increase productivity - which is generally globally stalled, to maintain occupation of current market share. The easy button is through layoffs, as AI does not require holidays, sick pay, etc…

Let's Go Explore how to really leverage AI

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Creating your own business and generating income is your get to be resilient in a world of AI business and employment disruptions.

There are only three ways to earn an income. First, a profession with its rules, regulations, training standards and membership requirements. Second, is an entrepreneurial venture where you solve a problem people hav in exchange for money. If you do not choose one of those, your only other option is to exchange your skills and time for money - salaried work, by the hour, day, week, month or year.

AI's initial disruptions are likely to be squarely within the salary workforce, entrepreneurs will adapt as necessary, professions are slow to adopt new technologies and thus, the time-based employee will be quickly sidelined if their position can be completed by AI.

Set up a company now, for a nominal one time fee and $72 per year, then tell the world you exist on social media.

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Entrepreneurs are great dreamers, pouring exceptional time and resources into their dream, often without understanding the risks they chose to accept, willingly or not, when they jumped in.

Strategic, Operational, Cyber and Reputational Risk.

That's it.

Embrace, understand, mitigate and launch your dream.

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How do we ready our entrepreneurial ventures to succeed and excel in these times of increased political, economic and natural disasters?

Understanding your risk profile across strategic, operational, cyber and reputational areas is key. Knowledge is power, learn about how to identify risk and be aware of what risks exist because of how you choose to do business.

Embrace risk, build market share and join a community of fellow entrepreneurs. Together we thrive.

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From the A1 to C3, the newspaper is drowning in chaos, disturbances and the growing call for significant change in our world. For those who never had the pleasure of reading a full newspaper over morning coffee, that’s the meat, before the comics and entertainment sections, though they might just be a better, more sane bet these days.

Volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (VUCA) has grown in popularity, resonating with many who are looking for an anchor term to describe today’s business environment. While it likely extends to many others arenas, it is most valuable in understanding the challenges small and medium businesses (SMB) encounter in daily operations.

Enter risk, the calculation of a future event, its probability and severity, on your current or future operations. Decisions, strategic and important, rely on the ability of entrepreneurs to understand the potential risk in the markets, find reasonable clarity in the VUCA reality, while relying on the elements of PCSC to stop gap any significant issues. Risk tolerance is personal, different in each of us and not equal across all decisions. Most entrepreneurs prefer clarity, though some excel in VUCA situations, where bold moves, aggressive decisions may lead to exceptional payoffs. Some embrace game theory and some are just unrestrained.

Risk is understood to be a perception, as previous iterations predict the future, we gain a reasonable level of confidence as to the future outcome. Never certain, but with time, education, social capital and great advisors, VUCA becomes less a problem set and more an advantage. PCSC is reasonably easy to navigate, and a preferred environment for those with large capital-intensive projects that have longer time horizons. Hence the heavy interventionist governance present in certain sectors of the economy, where a company intends to invest billions, they have a reasonable expectation of predictability. But what if PCSC becomes less available and the world moves more towards VUCA?

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