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Certainty

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The important thing is to be better, not perfect. After all, we’re only human and we’re operating under conditions of uncertainty. It’s hard to time quitting decisions perfectly.

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The beauty of having the option to quit is that it makes it easier for us to make decisions under uncertainty.

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Getting through a strategic inflection point involves confusion, uncertainty and disorder, both on a personal level if you are in management and on a strategic level for the enterprise as a whole.

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Perhaps, because of this uncertainty about its essence, the internet that has emerged is riven by conflict. It can best be described as the combination of frustrated idealism and strongly vested interests.

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The wise will be humble enough to listen to others, creative enough to devise new solutions to our new problems, and bold enough in the face of uncertainty to give them a try.

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If you turn uncertainty and insecurity upside down, opportunities drop out – and this is certainly an uncertain and insecure age.

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Modern life is neither linear nor circular. Its patterns are so difficult to decipher that it is causing more and more intelligent people to resort to simplistic, absolute conclusions just to feel the comfort of being certain, no matter if the certainty is a mirage.

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[Leaders] must acknowledge uncertainties and deal effectively with the present, while simultaneously anticipating and responding to the future.

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Self-justification is the route by which ambivalence morphs into certainty, guilt into rage. The love story has become a hate book.

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All certainty is uncertain. You’re not safe. You never will be. No one is.

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