We tend to think of an irreversible decision as one where we can know the decision point in advance of the action.
The most dangerous and most irreversible decisions have unknown decision points. These involve risk. We do something and we know or should know what can happen. The consequence may not occur. Should the consequence occur, the decision point gets backdated to the time that we took the initial action. It is as if we made a conscious decision to incur that consequence. We may not want that consequence yet we get it as a result of our actions. The consequence is an irreversible decision.
An irreversible decision differs from an unintended consequence because with the irreversible decision we can anticipate the consequence but we do not know the probability. An unintended consequence is something that we normally cannot know in advance.
Management of irreversible decisions is a key aspect of Cowboy Safety.
David Sneed
The most dangerous and most irreversible decisions have unknown decision points. These involve risk. We do something and we know or should know what can happen. The consequence may not occur. Should the consequence occur, the decision point gets backdated to the time that we took the initial action. It is as if we made a conscious decision to incur that consequence. We may not want that consequence yet we get it as a result of our actions. The consequence is an irreversible decision.
An irreversible decision differs from an unintended consequence because with the irreversible decision we can anticipate the consequence but we do not know the probability. An unintended consequence is something that we normally cannot know in advance.
Management of irreversible decisions is a key aspect of Cowboy Safety.
David Sneed
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