Is adding uncertainty necessary for innovation?

“Learning to live with ambiguity and uncertainty is a necessary precondition for more opportunity. If you want to “win,” you need a pretty significant amount of ambiguity and uncertainty in you life.” – Taylor Pearson

(from a 2022 detailed article by him about the OODA loop https://lnkd.in/etDD3u32)

Does his statement resonate with you or repel you?

The key question is: whether or not Taylor’s statement is true or at least somewhat true.

His statement is probably the opposite of what people aim for. The common aim is more likely to reduce uncertainty in any form.

He suggests seeking or injecting uncertainty if you don’t have enough!

Is there uncertainty in your business? In your life?

How can you manage it?

Work with it?

Leverage it? (his main point in the quote)

 

P.S.

Lots of debate about “agile,” “agility,” etc. – including OODA as a specific approach – on LinkedIn and elsewhere. Including the theme that “agile” – whatever that means to the proponent – is dead.

“Agile” or OODA or whatever isn’t the underlying issue.

Uncertainty and what you do about/with it is.