What Could Possibly Go Wrong?: Unintended Consequences, Unnecessary Blunders, and the Urgency of Avoiding Tomorrow's Mistakes

We make decisions with the best of intentions—yet time and again, those decisions lead to disaster.

From government policies that spark unintended crises to innovations that unleash environmental ruin, What Could Possibly Go Wrongexplores the surprising and often devastating ripple effects of well-meaning choices. With gripping case studies spanning politics, business, medicine, military strategy, ecology, and more, this book reveals how history has been shaped not just by what we aimed to d...