{"id":296,"date":"2018-10-03T20:29:35","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T00:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steelray.com\/blog\/?p=296"},"modified":"2018-10-03T20:50:27","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T00:50:27","slug":"unintended-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/?p=296","title":{"rendered":"Unintended Consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" src=\"https:\/\/www.steelray.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/icons8-bear-48.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-297\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-ca\/news\/world\/28-year-old-hunter-hospitalized-after-bear-he-shot-plunges-down-hill-and-lands-on-him\/ar-BBNRKNS?li=AAggv0m\">A hunter was injured<\/a> when a bear landed on top of him after he shot it on a hilltop.\u00a0\u00a0I am not making light of this happening, and I hope the hunter makes a full and quick recovery, but this story is a perfect metaphor for the habit we sometimes have of shooting problems and at the same time accidentally creating bigger ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think they like to call it &#8220;unintended consequences,&#8221; and I&#8217;ve had my share of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The only upside to making mountain-sized messes out of mole-sized problems with decisions is when we:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol style=\"padding-left: 2em;\"><li>learn from them<\/li><li>figure out how our decision process failed us<\/li><li>train ourselves to spend more thinking time on the potential side effects and future problems.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s definitely a process, and one I&#8217;m not finished with.\u00a0 When was the last time a bear you shot landed on you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hunter was injured when a bear landed on top of him after he shot it on a hilltop.\u00a0\u00a0I am not making light of this happening, and I hope the hunter makes a full and quick recovery, but this story is a perfect metaphor for the habit we sometimes have of shooting problems and at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-project-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304,"href":"https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}