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The Hidden Enemy of Productive Conversations

Harvard Business Review

Complex problems are characterized by confusing systems of causal interactions; untangling these requires multiple different points of view. Path dependence is the tendency for things (such as events, belief systems, personalities, evolution, and conversations) to unfold in ways that are constrained by the parameters of the path they are on.

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The Hidden Enemy of Productive Conversations

Harvard Business Review

Complex problems are characterized by confusing systems of causal interactions; untangling these requires multiple different points of view. Path dependence is the tendency for things (such as events, belief systems, personalities, evolution, and conversations) to unfold in ways that are constrained by the parameters of the path they are on.