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Ambiguity

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19 Quote(s) Found

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The power balance in lateral relationships is always open to ambiguity.

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In choosing well what to target first, you must satisfy the most basic criteria: achieving visible, meaningful, and unambiguous progress quickly.

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…[the] potent mixture of job ambiguity and lack of metrics… allows behavior that can seem ridiculous… to thrive…

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It’s not only options that yield decision paralysis… Ambiguity does, too.

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If you’re leading a change effort, you need to remove the ambiguity from your vision of change.

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In most change situations, the parameters aren’t well understood, and the future is fuzzy.

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To solve bigger, more ambiguous problems, we need to encourage open minds, creativity, and hope.

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In ambiguous situations… people look to others for cues about how to interpret the event.

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A good production process… should minimize both ambiguity about what’s going on and the amount of unscheduled communication required to accomplish the work.

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The enemy of accountability is ambiguity, and even when a team has initially committed to a plan or a set of behavioral standards, it is important to keep those agreements in the open so that no one can easily ignore them.

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