Ambiguity is not necessarily a villain in itself. It is a good thing that knowledge work has at its essence creating clarity out of ambiguity and making good decisions (i.e., determining what’s best next). But when we don’t know how to do knowledge work, ambiguity becomes a villain because it ends up frustrating us, making life harder, and sometimes defeating us. It’s like jumping in the pool without knowing how to swim. Jobs today are not as clear as they were in the industrial era, yet we haven’t been taught the skills of navigating this context, learning how to define our work, and managing
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