{"id":8489,"date":"2012-06-25T16:36:59","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T14:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/?p=8489"},"modified":"2022-12-30T16:49:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T15:49:14","slug":"volatility-uncertainty-complexity-and-ambiguity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/volatility-uncertainty-complexity-and-ambiguity\/","title":{"rendered":"Volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VUCA is an acronym used to describe or reflect on the volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity of general conditions and situations. The common usage of the term VUCA began in the late 1990s and derives from military vocabulary[1] and has been subsequently used in emerging ideas in strategic leadership that apply in a wide range of organizations, including everything from for-profit corporations[2] to education.[3]<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Volatility,_uncertainty,_complexity_and_ambiguity\">Volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity &#8211; Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VUCA is an acronym used to describe or reflect on the volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity of general conditions and situations. The common usage of the term VUCA began in the late 1990s and derives from military vocabulary[1] and has been subsequently used in emerging ideas in strategic leadership that apply in a wide range &#8230; <a title=\"Volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/volatility-uncertainty-complexity-and-ambiguity\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32,7,10,19,25],"tags":[300,296],"class_list":["post-8489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-language-writing","category-militaria","category-sociology-social-sciences","category-words","tag-processed","tag-published"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prY0k-2cV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15992,"url":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/innocense-of-denmark\/","url_meta":{"origin":8489,"position":0},"title":"Trust is a reducer of social complexity","author":"Limbic","date":"August 8, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Trust is a reducer of social complexity\" by Pelle Sten (Flickr)","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Images &amp; Photography&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Images &amp; Photography","link":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/category\/humanities\/images\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/trust.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/trust.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/trust.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":17531,"url":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/michael-mauboussin\/","url_meta":{"origin":8489,"position":1},"title":"Michael Mauboussin","author":"Limbic","date":"March 26, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Just heard an interview with Michael Mauboussin on The Knowledge Project podcast (a Farnum Street blog production) and he was super interesting. A few quotes form the podcast. These are paraphrased: \"An expert is someone who has a predictive model that works.\" \"When it comes to decision making, Daniel Kahneman\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Anthropology&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Anthropology","link":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/category\/science\/anthropology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8728,"url":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/four-degrees-of-separation-that-help-simplify-work\/","url_meta":{"origin":8489,"position":2},"title":"Four degrees of separation that help simplify work","author":"Limbic","date":"September 15, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"From:\u00a0http:\/\/changingminds.org\/blog\/0902blog\/090225blog.htm Much work these days is packaged up as projects, with plans, resources and time-bound deliverables. Managing projects is a skill as the various risks and issues can easily trip you up. In particular the sheer complexity can cause much extra work and conceal important issues. 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