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)

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