Category: Unintended Consequences

The field of social psychology has long grappled with questions inspired by real-world events. Here’s how half-century-old findings can teach today’s leaders. Article Link ...

There's a very interesting connection in the key points of this article and the measurement/scoring aspects of the Strategy Matrix. This is worth exploring in more detail. Article Link ...

Interesting article that addresses hesitancy to think about the future ...

We started exploring the implications of this Pizza Vending machine five years ago. We used this several times as a key demonstration exploration in facilitator training. An updated search on ...

The Implications Wheel promotes "divergent" thinking while the Strategy Matrix is designed for "convergent" thinking. This article documents the importance of knowing the differences. Article Link ...

A good article except for the final statement, the implied conclusion that unintended consequences can only be identified in hindsight. The Implications Wheel has demonstrated consistently that it's possible to ...

Management is a lens. It’s the best way yet invented to focus the organization’s capital, human, and time resources toward the goals of the business. Many have observed that companies ...

Most people are uncomfortable with data.  Estimates, analytics, and data-driven predictions — they can all be confusing and overwhelming. Some of this discomfort is based on experience. Everyone remembers a ...

What an intro: Unintended consequences (or, unanticipated, unforeseen, unplanned… consequences) are outcomes that are not intended by a purposeful action, i.e., intended actions that are taken for a completely positive purpose… but have negative ...

“Like all new tools, Big Data carries the potential for unintended consequences." Prompted by the above quote, this article, authored by Jim Schreier, includes a segment from an exploration on ...