http://www.doublejourney.com/2008/01/14/dealing-with-ambiguity-at-work/ Going From Good To Great Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:27:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 http://www.doublejourney.com/2008/01/14/dealing-with-ambiguity-at-work/#comment-12049 terrence Fri, 28 Nov 2008 21:08:47 +0000 http://www.doublejourney.com/2008/01/14/dealing-with-ambiguity-at-work/#comment-12049 This is a pretty common occurrence. I find the easiest way to handle these type of situations is to don't ask, just do. I know it can drive you crazy not having instructions, but the flipside is if nobody can tell you what to do, nobody can tell you what you are doing is wrong. This is a pretty common occurrence. I find the easiest way to handle these type of situations is to don’t ask, just do. I know it can drive you crazy not having instructions, but the flipside is if nobody can tell you what to do, nobody can tell you what you are doing is wrong.

]]> http://www.doublejourney.com/2008/01/14/dealing-with-ambiguity-at-work/#comment-11897 Marika Eva Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:31:22 +0000 http://www.doublejourney.com/2008/01/14/dealing-with-ambiguity-at-work/#comment-11897 I have same situation. Got promoted around 2 weeks ago. Have no instructions, have no documentations. I replace a manager who is on long leave for maybe 6 month. I don't even know which file(s) she was working on. I am going crazy. What to do? I understand that I have to ''challenge status quo''. But no one is there to show me, to explain me. Everyone is busy and looks like with every question I just bother them. I have same situation. Got promoted around 2 weeks ago. Have no instructions, have no documentations. I replace a manager who is on long leave for maybe 6 month. I don’t even know which file(s) she was working on. I am going crazy. What to do? I understand that I have to ”challenge status quo”. But no one is there to show me, to explain me. Everyone is busy and looks like with every question I just bother them.

]]> http://www.doublejourney.com/2008/01/14/dealing-with-ambiguity-at-work/#comment-8595 When Interviewing, Interview the Interviewer! | Double Journey Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:05:27 +0000 http://www.doublejourney.com/2008/01/14/dealing-with-ambiguity-at-work/#comment-8595 [...] in hopes this person would ask me to clarify.  It is a technique I like to use to see how people deal with ambiguity and how good they are at asking meaningful questions.  No such luck.  The person just answered [...] […] in hopes this person would ask me to clarify.  It is a technique I like to use to see how people deal with ambiguity and how good they are at asking meaningful questions.  No such luck.  The person just answered […]

]]> http://www.doublejourney.com/2008/01/14/dealing-with-ambiguity-at-work/#comment-1544 terrence Wed, 16 Jan 2008 07:21:26 +0000 http://www.doublejourney.com/2008/01/14/dealing-with-ambiguity-at-work/#comment-1544 Yeah. some people handle it much better than others. I normally do, but for whatever reason, probably the very high level of ambiguity I'm dealing with, I have been struggling. Yeah. some people handle it much better than others. I normally do, but for whatever reason, probably the very high level of ambiguity I’m dealing with, I have been struggling.

]]> http://www.doublejourney.com/2008/01/14/dealing-with-ambiguity-at-work/#comment-1531 Brooke (Dollar Frugal) Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:47:38 +0000 http://www.doublejourney.com/2008/01/14/dealing-with-ambiguity-at-work/#comment-1531 Ambiguity? I eat ambiguity for breakfast!!! We all have to deal with changing circumstances on a daily basis, whether we realize it or not. Traffic, inflation, the job market...we don't really know what will happen, so we deal with it. Decision paralysis is dangerous...DS won't do anything if faced with too many decisions (M&Ms, Snickers, Twizzlers, or Milky Way...I dunno, Mom, you pick for me!), and most of us adults are the same way! Ambiguity? I eat ambiguity for breakfast!!! We all have to deal with changing circumstances on a daily basis, whether we realize it or not. Traffic, inflation, the job market…we don’t really know what will happen, so we deal with it. Decision paralysis is dangerous…DS won’t do anything if faced with too many decisions (M&Ms, Snickers, Twizzlers, or Milky Way…I dunno, Mom, you pick for me!), and most of us adults are the same way!

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