Exercise 4.1: Survivability Assessment

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[Verse 1]
When catastrophe strikes without warning bells
Your empire could crumble or barely survive
Strip away the extras, what essential dwells
In your core machinery to keep dreams alive
Which heartbeat positions, which data streams flow
Which revenue arteries, which compliance chains
Which partnerships matter when storms overthrow
The comfortable surplus your business maintains

[Chorus]
Minimum viable, skeleton crew
Cash flow essential, stakeholders true
People and systems, the regulatory few
Test every nightmare, will these pull you through?
Minimum viable, bare bones and lean
What's the foundation beneath your machine?

[Verse 2]
COVID locked the doorways, sent workers back home
Could your skeleton function with half the staff?
Ukraine shows us warfare in our modern chrome
Would supply chains shatter, would customers laugh?
Currency crashing fifty percent overnight
Bank accounts slashing, purchasing power gone
Would your slimmed operations still burn bright
Or fade to darkness by the following dawn?

[Chorus]
Minimum viable, skeleton crew
Cash flow essential, stakeholders true
People and systems, the regulatory few
Test every nightmare, will these pull you through?
Minimum viable, bare bones and lean
What's the foundation beneath your machine?

[Bridge]
Map your dependencies, trace every thread
Regulatory deadlines that can't be ignored
Customer loyalty hanging by a thread
Which partnerships vanish, which stay aboard?
Black swan scenarios, stress-test your frame
Will the skeleton hold when the flood waters came?

[Chorus]
Minimum viable, skeleton crew
Cash flow essential, stakeholders true
People and systems, the regulatory few
Test every nightmare, will these pull you through?
Minimum viable, bare bones and lean
What's the foundation beneath your machine?

[Outro]
Define survival in concrete terms tonight
Tomorrow's black swan won't give you time to think twice

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