Sara answers “What is the fifth risk?”

pauli pendleton asked this question about The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy:

What is the fifth risk?

Sara Under the category of "program management," Lewis & his experts explain it as the risk you don't anticipate -- the unintended consequences you never t…moreUnder the category of "program management," Lewis & his experts explain it as the risk you don't anticipate -- the unintended consequences you never thought about. In the book's stunning final paragraph, after describing the woman who said she prayed every day for a tornado to wipe her red barn away because she had to look at it everyday, & it was where her husband had committed suicide, Lewis states: "And so you might have good reason to pray for a tornado, whether it comes in the shape of swirling winds, or a politician. You imagine the thing doing the damage that you would like to see done, and no more. It's what you fail to imagine that kills you." (less)

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