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In the US at least, this crisis and the administration's response takes the form of a "Grey Rhino". Something you can see coming, but you need to _act now_ to d
by L_226 7y ago
In the US at least, this crisis and the administration's response takes the form of a "Grey Rhino". Something you can see coming, but you need to _act now_ to do something about it or be at its mercy.
From the website of the woman who coined the term - Michele Wucker [0]:
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A “gray rhino” is a highly probable, high impact yet neglected threat: kin to both the elephant in the room and the improbable and unforeseeable black swan. Gray rhinos are not random surprises, but occur after a series of warnings and visible evidence. The bursting of the housing bubble in 2008, the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and other natural disasters, the new digital technologies that upended the media world, the fall of the Soviet Union…all were evident well in advance.
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[0] https://www.wucker.com/writing/the-gray-rhino/ https://www.wucker.com/writing/the-gray-rhino/