Reference #369: Thinking in Systems
Several system archetypes that produce common patterns of behaviour have been identified. These archetypes arise from system structure, not necessarily the specifics of a system, and so are observed in many different settings. The archetypes are as follows:
- Policy resistance (fixes that fail)
- Tragedy of the comments
- Drift to low performance
- Escalation
- Success to the successful (competitive exclusion)
- Shifting the burden to the intervenor (addiction)
- Rule beating
- Seeking the wrong goal
Meadows. Thinking in Systems, 2008. (111-112, 112-138)