Embracing Ambiguity: Making Judgment Calls when the Future is Hazy

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Trying to predict the future with any precision is a fool’s game, but ignoring it is suicidal. The right approach lies somewhere between prediction and neglect. Recent research has revealed a positive correlation between a leader’s tolerance for ambiguity and the successful management of paradoxes: Troy University management professor Debra Hunter says that a high tolerance for ambiguity entails a tendency to perceive ambiguous situations as desirable, whereas people with a low tolerance see ambiguous situations as threatening. Clearly, tolerance for ambiguity can help a leader cope with an increasingly uncertain world. But how do you develop that tolerance?

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