How well do you tolerate ambiguity? Do you need a clear roadmap of what’s ahead, or do you prefer more flexibility? Or is “flexibility” tantamount to “chaos”? Each person has a unique set of tendencies around this. Even so, just as with the two Hofstede dimensions we’ve discussed in earlier posts, with “uncertainty avoidance” there [...]
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