In a service role, respond instinctively, “I will get it done.”

Whenever you have never done something before that your leadership does not know immediately how to do and asks you to accomplish, your value will grow immeasurably if you instinctively respond, “Yes, I will get it done.”

The right leadership will not ask for something that they know in the first place is impossible to achieve. You will benefit, if you are the executor, from having many ideas pop to mind. But this era of the internet speeds to an unbelievable degree the exploration for solutions. Solutions that do exist are denied materialization only by your time and/or by the quantity of money available to your leadership.

A solution that exists will not happen if you run out of time to find it. That solution also will not happen if your leadership cannot afford it.

Response by Che-I Kao, my father:

Undertaking new assignments builds…

• New knowledge

• New skills

• The ability to prioritize

• The ability to work and cooperate with people

One will become a more valuable working partner!

Response to my father:

Repeatedly solving new problems builds skills and knowledge, but also improves one’s performance in uncertain situations. The ability to prioritize helps with uncertainty, as well as comfort with incomplete information.

Earlier for Stanford Duck Beta:

Learning and doing new things can be incredibly scary. Why?

When formulating in your mind a vision for a new endeavor, you are basically trying to create a mental picture that will feel like Swiss cheese. Inevitably your initial vision will lack key information. By definition, anything new will.

To conceive a new vision well and move forward from it, you will need to be comfortable working in a state of uncertainty.

Get the overall vision right, despite the plethora of holes in your knowledge.