This is not a new idea, there was a management fad in the nineties around understanding higher order effects and how they applied to businesses. The book everyo

This is not a new idea, there was a management fad in the nineties around understanding higher order effects and how they applied to businesses. The book everyone manager had to read back then was "The Fifth discipline" by an MIT professor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fifth_Discipline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fifth_Discipline (It's actually a pretty interesting read, as far as management books go)