Unintended consequences get to the heart of why you never really understand an adaptive problem until you have … - Richard Pascale

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I live in a very small house, but my windows look out on a very large world.

Richard Pascale

Unintended consequences get to the heart of why you never really understand an adaptive problem until you have solved it. Problems morph and "solutions" often point to deeper problems. In social life, as in nature, we are walking on a trampoline. Every inroad reconfigures the environment we tread on.

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