The Best “Ambiguity” Quotes of “Digital Master” Aug. 2019

Ambiguity is the haziness of reality, has the potential for misreads.

"Digital Master” is a series of guidebooks (28 + books) to perceive the multi-faceted impact digital is making to the businesses and society, help forward-thinking organizations navigate through the journey in a systematic way, and avoid “rogue digital.” It perceives the emergent trends of digital leadership, provides advice on how to run a digital organization to unleash its full potential and improve agility, maturity, and provide insight about Change Management. It also instructs the digital workforce on how to shape a game-changing digital mindset and build the right set of digital capabilities to compete for the future. Here is a set of “Ambiguity” quotes in “Digital Master."


1Ambiguity is a term used to describe a circumstance in which an investment is made, but the outcome is uncertain.

2 Ambiguity is the haziness of reality, has the potential for misreads. Consequently, in times of organizational change or digital transformation, dealing with ambiguity is a leadership skill.

3 The ambiguity effect is a cognitive bias where decision making is affected by a lack of information (in many cases, the information cannot be obtained).

4 The tolerance of ambiguity means that the business leaders today are comfortable with uncertainty, unpredictability, conflicting directions, and multiple demands.

5 Ambiguity can be understood as being similar to business ‘risk,’ Though risky events have a known probability distribution over outcomes while in ambiguous events, the probability distribution is not known.

6 Ambiguity has cause-and-effect confusion; it’s the dissonance between ideas, but it can also become the “secret sauce” to stimulate creativity.

7 Business leaders today needs to have a certain level of ambiguity tolerance to inspire a culture of innovation and risk-taking, and appreciate different perspectives, different knowledge, and different ways to solve problems.

8 complex, ambiguous and dynamic environments demand a greater understanding and application of systems thinking - take a natural and holistic way to understand the world, and all its systems and subsystems works

9 Dealing with ambiguity is linked with decision-making processes. And decision making is one of the most important responsibilities for leaders.