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The 2020 Navigate the Chaos calendar and book edition of the blog are both available here.
Michael Edmondson
Nov 10, 2019
How often do you surround yourself with people?
"Our happiness depends on other people. Study after study shows that good social relationships are the strongest, most consistent predi
Michael Edmondson
Nov 6, 2019
What types of courage do you practice?
Courage is the first of human virtues because it makes all others possible.
Michael Edmondson
Oct 29, 2019
How do you spend your limited time?
Time passes whether you are busy or lazy, whether you are healthy or sick. For all of us, time is rolling at the same pace.
Michael Edmondson
Oct 25, 2019
How often do you care what others say?
“There were some who would try to discredit my observations because I was a young untrained girl. I didn’t care what anybody said.”
Michael Edmondson
Oct 6, 2019
How often do you think differently?
"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it.”
Michael Edmondson
Jul 8, 2019
How much grit do you have?
Doing so equips individuals to pursue, especially challenging aims over years and even decades. Duckworth noted that people who “accomplishe
Michael Edmondson
Jul 3, 2019
Do you suffer from the Peter Principle?
Successful people that navigate the chaos work hard at not suffering from the Peter Principle. Those who carefully navigate understand that
Michael Edmondson
Jun 18, 2019
Do you leverage rest?
Researcher Alex Soojung-Kim Pang published his results in a March 2017 article entitled “Darwin Was a Slacker and You Should Be Too” in whi
Michael Edmondson
Jun 1, 2019
Do you fail to see someone?
In her book No One Understand You: And What To Do About It, she writes that most of us assume that other people see us as we see ourselves a
Michael Edmondson
Apr 29, 2019
How often do you think about career myths?
Ninety-seven percent of CEOs undertook at least one of these catapult experiences and close to 50% had at least two. As Elena Lytkina Botelh
Michael Edmondson
Mar 30, 2019
How often are you prudent?
This evidence suggests that character skills may count for a lot – as much, perhaps, as cognitive skills – in terms of important life outcom
Michael Edmondson
Mar 9, 2019
Do you turn inward to discover happiness?
The more value people placed on happiness, the less happy they became.
Michael Edmondson
Mar 1, 2019
What is your level of authenticity?
Studies have found that leadership based solely on MBA-trained logic is not always enough for delivering long-term financial and cultural re
Michael Edmondson
Feb 4, 2019
How resilient are you?
The Kauai Longitudinal Study identified five components of a resilient life: 1)resilient individuals are active problem solvers; 2)they used
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