Navigating ambiguity

Navigating deeply ambiguous problems is the rarest skill

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Jakub Chodounsky
January 29, 2024

Navigating ambiguity
10 minutes by Will Larson

In my experience, navigating deeply ambiguous problems is the rarest skill in engineers, and doing it well is a rarity. It’s sufficiently rare that many executives can’t do it well either, although I do believe that all long-term successful executives find at least one toolkit for these kinds of problems.

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