This document discusses embracing uncertainty and not knowing, challenging overprecision, and strategies for coping with and leading through uncertainty such as reading more books, taking up a new hobby, looking at other sectors, playing games to get familiar with new systems, managing resistance, envisioning outcomes without needing success, working with rather than against resistance, and joining a league of not knowing for more information.

1. The Delicious Discomfort in Not
Knowing
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2. NO DATA

3. Alternatively…
1/90th
of this presentation will be dedicated
to consideration of statistical analysis.

6. We are never more wrong than
when we are most right

8. The lawyer’s
curse
The
expert’s
curse

9. If only
they
would
change

10. Overprecision
OVERPRECISION

11. 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”

12. The seductive lie

13. Theword`cope’and
theword`change’are
directlyoppositenot
thesame

15. 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

16. Strategies for surviving at the edge
…Because that’s where all the interesting stuff
happens!

17. The Breakthrough Equation
(4X) x E + S1/S2
= BT

18. 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!)…

19. Play
games to
get
familiar
with new
systems
Aversion Therapy – getting to
know not knowing

20. Get Artisan
Connect External/Internal
Embrace complexity
• Manage resistance
• Envision and temporarily suspend
need for successful outcome
• Work with resistance, not against it
Autonomy

21. ‘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.’

22. Join
www.theleagueofnotknowing.com
for more information on coping
with and leading through
uncertainty.
Thank you.