Vagueness as a barrier to executing strategy

Vagueness is different from ambiguity.

We define 'ambiguity' as something that is hard to know. It may be 'unknowable' and we just have to find a way to creatively cope. 'Vague' on the other hand is something that can be known, but is unknown because people do not know how to go about describing it and communicating it.

Some areas where vagueness can be eliminated:

• Knowing who you are. This may be really, really hard to do, but it can be done.
  
• Understanding your job role.
• Describing what you want from the person you are talking to.
• Describing value you have to offer to the person you are talking to.
  
• Identifying barriers that prevent goals from being achieved.
• Describing and prioritizing the capabilities needed to meet customer outcomes.
• Describing what is bothering you about a person or a situation.
• Knowing what you need to stop doing and start doing.
  
• Describing what you want to happen differently.
  

Some areas of ambiguity:

• What the economy will be like tomorrow.
• The real motives that drive human behavior.
• Why wisdom, forgiveness and compassion take time to develop and why some people never acquire them.
• Why we have conflict due diversity in opinion and points of view even after science, philosophy and religion have 'proved' the dynamic unity of the universe.
  

Describing ambiguity is a way to alleviate the stress of dealing with the unknowable.

Dealing with reality is a way to eliminate vagueness. Clarity is achieved when vagueness is eliminated.