How to navigate through chaos and complexity

Entrepreneurs and CEOs are the Navy SEALs of the business world. You can learn a lot from special forces (and top athletes). Discipline, leadership and dealing with uncertainty. Because uncertainty is the only certainty. SEALs are masters of uncertainty. While the SEALs’ ability to train and strategise is unparalleled, what sets them apart isn’t just martial skill or strategic acumen. It’s their composure amid the unpredictable, their deft navigation through complexity and chaos.

Life in not predictable

Our culture promotes a misleading belief that life is predictable. Arguably, the most detrimental aspect of the predictability paradigm is its reinforcement of the notion that peak performance represents the ultimate standard of success. Peak performance is often conditional. It typically requires a predictable and familiar environment. It requires training, discipline, and preparation.

Forget about peak performance

In reality, achieving repetitive peak performance is unrealistic because uncertainty is the foundational state of…