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The Ripple Effect

Remote or in person

Every decision sends ripples through the whole system.

A multiplayer leadership simulation where each team's choices quietly reshape the conditions everyone else is playing under. The point lands when the room realises nobody was playing their own game.

Run this when…

The situations it was built for. If none of these is the room you have, it is probably the wrong activity.

  • A leadership development programme
  • A session on systems thinking or unintended consequences
  • Teams that keep optimising locally and hurting each other
  • A change programme's kick-off

Running it well

Only the host sees these. Participants never do.

  • Do not explain the combos. Teams discovering that Sales and Product interact is the whole lesson — told in advance it becomes a puzzle to solve rather than a mistake to learn from.
  • Round four turns the market whatever anyone did. Let it land without warning; conditions changing under decisions already made is the point.
  • In the debrief read two or three events aloud before you show any scores. The scores say who won, the events say why, and only one of those is worth remembering.
  • When a company drops into survival mode, say so out loud. It can rebuild but cannot win overall, and a team that does not know that just disengages.
  • Six rounds is the tight version and ten is the full arc. Below six the endgame rules never fire and it stops being a simulation.

Run it yourself

Free for thirty days, no card. Add it, share the code, and your room is playing in about fifteen seconds.

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At a glance
Players
6–250
Runs for
60–120 min
Where
Remote or in person
Big screen
Required
Teams
Supported
What it builds
systems thinkingcollaborationdecision makingcommunication
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