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Today is January 6 and the Navigate the Chaos question is "Is it possible to do the impossible?" Those who navigate the chaos understand anything is possible. For example, it is possible to conduct an orchestra without a baton. Due to an injury to his right arm when he was 16, Kurt Masur, the music director emeritus of the New York Philharmonic, spent his career conducting orchestras without a baton. St. Francis of Assisi noted "Start by doing what is necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you're doing the impossible."
By Michael Edmondson, Ph.D.Today is January 6 and the Navigate the Chaos question is "Is it possible to do the impossible?" Those who navigate the chaos understand anything is possible. For example, it is possible to conduct an orchestra without a baton. Due to an injury to his right arm when he was 16, Kurt Masur, the music director emeritus of the New York Philharmonic, spent his career conducting orchestras without a baton. St. Francis of Assisi noted "Start by doing what is necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you're doing the impossible."