{"id":5077,"date":"2015-01-30T19:48:59","date_gmt":"2015-01-31T00:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5077"},"modified":"2015-01-30T19:48:59","modified_gmt":"2015-01-31T00:48:59","slug":"we-ignore-unintended-consequences-at-our-peril","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5077","title":{"rendered":"We Ignore Unintended Consequences At Our Peril"},"content":{"rendered":"

We Ignore Unintended Consequences At Our Peril<\/a><\/h3>\n
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They’ll likely define our future more than the intended ones<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Early in my business career, I was faced with a challenge that gave me an appreciation for a critical lesson about life and business. It’s that oftentimes, even with the best of intentions, our actions create consequences completely different from what we intend.<\/p>\n

It’s that insight that makes me so concerned about the grand central banking experiment being conducted around the globe right now. With little more than a lever to ham-fistedly move interest rates, the central planners are trying to keep the world’s debt-addiction well-fed while simultaneously kick-starting economic growth and managing the price levels of everything from stocks to housing to fine art.<\/p>\n

As with an earlier article I wrote focusing on\u00a0the Bullwhip Effect<\/a>\u00a0phenomenon: the complexity of the system, the\u00a0questionable credentials<\/a>\u00a0of the decision-makers, and the universe’s proclivity towards unintended consequences all combine to give great confidence that things will NOT play out in the way the Fed and its brethren are counting on.<\/p>\n

A Puzzle To Solve<\/h2>\n

Two years after graduating business school, I joined the team at Yahoo! Finance as its Marketing lead. It was a crazy time there; the tech bubble was in mid-burst and advertiser dollars — the main source of revenue for the business unit — were fast drying up. We went through several general managers within my first year there as the leadership scrambled for a sound course to chart.<\/p>\n

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n

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