Many folks surmise climbing mountains is a one-man skip-skip, hop-hop march to the top. But what is not in view is the coordinated effort of the team. From porters to a cook, to the guide – it has to be seamless teamwork: every one being where they are supposed to be, doing what they are supposed to be doing – for all seven days.

Ditto for business – it has to be teamwork for it to work, no?

PS. I went climbing one time and the cook pulled a Houdini – a fast disappearing act into thin air with an entire week’s supply of bread and beef. And that was only the first night. I had three choices: trek back to base and restock, mop around or carry on. Oh, even a fourth: Quit. I carried on.

The unexpected. A real taste of what happens in life down the mountain – on terra firma. And even more routinely in business. In 20 years of enterpreneurship, I cannot even start to count how many totally un-forecasted contingencies I have had to deal with. One suddenly, and what follows is a spectacular free-fall.

Question is, how does one prepare for the unexpected?

May be the only way to have an answer to the unknown is to face it every so often? Just may be?