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open-endedness

Vaughn Tan3rd January 2021 at 7:07pm

The property of something not being fully defined in advance and thus not fully knowable in advance. In the newsletter, I write about open-endedness as a property of job roles, goals, motivation, style, strategy, products, and the future. Open-endedness makes things (objects, people, teams, and organizations) uncertain but also gives them the potential for innovation and freedom.

See also: adaptability, agathonicity, amorphous organization, Boris, discomfort, forcing function, not-knowing, realistic imagination, resource with no predefined form, strategy, uncertainty mindset, work-in-progress.