TERM-071Financial
Opportunity Cost
The value of the path not taken. Every hour spent managing dysfunction is an hour not spent on growth, innovation, or the work that matters. Opportunity cost is invisible on the balance sheet but real in the trajectory.
Institutional States
Last LegView pattern →The Sacred CowView pattern →Cracked MirrorView pattern →The Exit PatternView pattern →Dead CalmView pattern →SilosolationView pattern →Runaway TreadmillView pattern →The Fossil SystemView pattern →The AnchorView pattern →Broken CompassView pattern →Kid GlovesView pattern →The Unlit RoomView pattern →
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