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The Delicious Discomfort in Not Knowing @neildenny www.linkedin.com/in/ neildenny

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These slides accompany Neil Denny's talk on the need to be able to tolerate uncertainty and ambiguity rather than rushing to technical answers and solutions.

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The Delicious Discomfort in Not Knowing

@neildenny

www.linkedin.com/in/neildenny

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NO DATA

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Alternatively…

1/90th of this presentation will be

dedicated to consideration of statistical analysis.

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We are never more wrong than when we are most right

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The lawyer’s

curse

The expert’s

curse

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If only they

would change

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OverprecisionOVERPRECISION

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How many F’s are in the passage below?

“Those of us who focus on issues of fairness too often effect agreement by giving in, instead of first using our powers of persuasion to affect a fair outcome that fully satisfies all of our legitimate interests”

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The seductive lie

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The word `cope’ and

the word `change’ are

directly opposite not the sam

e

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People say they are looking for answers when in reality they are looking for

someone to tell them just how little they have to change

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Strategies for surviving at the edge

…Because that’s where all the interesting stuff happens!

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The Breakthrough Equation

(4X) x E + S1/S2 = BT

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Aversion Therapy – getting to know not knowing• Read more books

• Take up a craft, a language or instrument• Look at other sectors• Or (and this one is

really easy!)…

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Play games to get familiar with new systems

Aversion Therapy – getting to know not knowing

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Get ArtisanConnect External/InternalEmbrace complexity• Manage resistance• Envision and temporarily suspend

need for successful outcome• Work with resistance, not against itAutonomy

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‘Neil doesn’t pretend to

have all the answers (or any of them necessarily.) He challenges me to be more creative and take greater risks with my

own vulnerabilities.’

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Join www.theleagueofnotknowing.com

for more information on coping with and leading through

uncertainty.Thank you.