#50: Strategies for thriving in uncertainty with Vaughn Tan

Naturalistic Decision Making

Vaughn TAN is a consultant, author, toolmaker, and professor of strategy at University College London. For over a decade, Vaughn has helped businesses, not-for-profits, and government agencies — like the Singapore Government, Wellcome, and Carlyle Group — design themselves to flourish in uncertainty.

He wrote The Uncertainty Mindset (a book about uncertainty and innovation organizations) and makes idk (a training tool for productive discomfort). He is currently working on building better strategies for different kinds of not-knowing.

Vaughn has a PhD in Organizational Behavior and Sociology from Harvard University and Harvard Business School. He previously worked at Google in California on special projects (including spaceflight and big structured data) and consumer products (including Earth, Maps, and Streetview).

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Brian Moon

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Laura Militello

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