Scientific Definition
Causal chain from inputs to outputs to outcomes to impact.
Plain-English Definition
Causal chain from inputs to outputs to outcomes to impact.
Feynman Explanation
If you can't draw it, you can't run it.
Core Principle
Causal chain from inputs to outputs to outcomes to impact.
Mechanisms
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Causal chain from inputs to outputs to outcomes to impact.
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Strategy clarity and execution alignment.
Inputs (Triggers)
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Outputs (Behaviors)
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Behavioral Signature
If you can't draw it, you can't run it.
Examples
- Balanced scorecard, OKR cascades.
- Strategy clarity and execution alignment.
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Famous Experiments
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Design Principles
- Force every initiative to map to the chain explicitly.
Measurement Approaches
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Evidence
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The Perverse Incentive Lens™
How this behavior is exploited — and how to redesign around it.
- Force every initiative to map to the chain explicitly.
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Interactive Mini Network
Click any neighbor to re-center the graph and follow the threads of connection.
Knowledge Graph Neighbors
Auto-linked to the rest of the Human Behavior Taxonomy by family, domain, dimension, and shared keywords.
Combine extreme safety with extreme risk; avoid the middle.
Game theory adjusted for how humans actually play — including fairness, reciprocity, and limited reasoning.
Allocating finite resources across many fronts when the opponent does the same — no dominant strategy exists.
Coordinated action that produces outcomes unavailable to individual actors.
Designing organizations to ride doubling curves — AI, data, compute, biotech — rather than linear improvement.
Decisions depend on what other strategic actors will do.
Individual rationality produces collective irrationality.
Start cooperative; copy your counterpart's last move thereafter.
Where, how, what — in that order.
One party's gain is exactly another party's loss.
Reverse-engineering the internal sequence — visual, auditory, kinesthetic — an expert uses to produce a result.
Unconscious psychological strategies that protect self-image.