Friday, April 29, 2016

Increasing Uncertainty

By Rick Nason, PhD, CFA
Partner, RSD Solutions Inc.
A quick search of business efficiency and personal development sites on Twitter or Linked-in will provide a long list of articles on increasing certainty or equivalently decreasing uncertainty.  Of course the risk management sites, both academic and professional are about nothing else but reducing uncertainty and increasing certainty.
Another search however will reveal that there are virtually no postings about how to increase uncertainty.  However a more careful distinction needs to be made.  For many things uncertainty is desirable.  I am actually a big fan of uncertainty.  Uncertainty means opportunity.  Uncertainty means greater potential for those who are willing to work harder or think smarter.  Uncertainty means we have a reason to get up each and every day and be excited about the tasks before us.  Uncertainty means we have something to look forward to.  Uncertainty means that risk professionals have jobs and value to provide.
After all, the only things certain are death and taxes, and both of those I am not a big fan of.

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