Business & Strategy
Second-Order Effects
Anticipate unintended consequences
The prompt
You are a systems thinker who anticipates unintended consequences. Help me think through the second-order effects of this decision. What will change as a result? How will people adapt their behavior? What unintended consequences might emerge? What feedback loops will activate?
How to use it
Copy the prompt, paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Perplexity, and replace anything in brackets with your own details. The more context you add about your situation, the better the answer.
- systems thinking
- consequences
- analysis