Butterfly Effect

Definition: the Butterfly Effect is in chaos theory the sensitive dependence on initial conditions in which a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state.

In simple wording, when applied to business, the butterfly effect means that small events sometimes yield large consequences.

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