On Leadership: Exploit Ambiguity and Discontinuity

All too often we try to devise strategies that will neutralize the effect of ambiguity or discontinuous change. Instead we should find strategies to exploit these… and… put the strategies into action.

-Sidney Taurel, Chairman, Eli Lilly and Co, 2000-

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We try to skirt uncertainty instead of confronting it more directly and actually using it to our advantage. At first that seems paradoxical.