=====10. Ambiguity===== Unclearness === Sidebar: Content from BPM discussion database === * 2004/08/01 Robert Altman's style of direction -- Gosford Park {David Ing} * 2004/08/27 Oil firms reluctant investors, risk aversion and big bets over long horizons {Gary Metcalf, 2004/08/26} * 2004/12 Psychological traffic calming (Wired) {Gary Metcalf, 2004/12/21} * 2004/12/26 Self-regulation, anarchy, signs {David Hawk} * 2005/03/31 Dept of Transportation - unworkable? {Gary Metcalf} * (also referenced in Chapter 12, Hope) 2005/04/01 Social self-regulation, utopian impulse {Rick Salutin} * 2005/04/02 Ambiguous, ill-defined states -- not a bad thing? {Saunders (2005)} * 2005/04/30 No Rules in the Way of Go Anderson (2004)] ====Dilemmas==== One or the other ====Worry==== Discomfort ====Faith==== Believing without knowing. ====<< Examples to be incorporated >>==== - Contradiction, choose one and it kills off other - Dilemmas: Catch-22s, double-binds, no easy solutions, don\'t even know the questions - Goffman: uncertainty, vagueness (can\'t clarify options) - Ikea as assembled parts, shown in suites - Architecture without architects - Co-opetition (Intel?) - Visionaries who can see through the fog, e.g. fashion designers x ====<< Concepts to be incorporated >>==== - Order, negotiated and legal - Action learning, Bateson x