A goal seeking structure with delay can be responsible for behavior that's quite difficult to intuit.

Success to the successful archetype represents two reinforcing structures which may be in a delicate balance though as soon as one gains a small advantage the resource allocation favors the more successful and the result is then rapidly skewed in the direction of the more successful.

An Addiction structure is the same as the Shifting the Burden structure though with the annoying aspect that one becomes addicted to the side effect ensuring that Fundamental Solution won't get implemented and the Symptomatic Solution will be applied repeatedly, and likely with greater frequency.

The Accidental Adversaries structure represents a situation where two interacting entities which should produce growth unwittingly limit the growth of each other because of their actions to promote their own growth. 

With two different ways to address a situation with one being easier and faster which do you think gets implemented? The problem is that taking the easy path makes it harder to take the longer term solution.

A Fixes that Fail structure is one where the applied fix makes things better for a while and then things go awry.

Understanding Relationship and Their Implications: The Essence of AND?

A Growth and Underinvestment structure is simply an elaborated Limits to Growth structure where the growth inhibitor is part of another Balancing Loop with an external standard and some delay. The real nasty thing about this structure is that the two Balancing Loops form a single Reinforcing Loop which inhibits growth.

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A Tragedy of the Commons situation exists whenever two or more activities, each, which in order to produce results, rely on a shared limited resource. Results for these activities continue to develop as long as their use of the limited resource doesn't exceed the resource limit. Once this limit is reached the results produced by each activity are limited to the level at which the resource is replenished.

A goal seeking structure with delay can be responsible for behavior that's quite difficult to intuit.

With two different ways to address a situation with one being easier and faster which do you think gets implemented? The problem is that taking the easy path makes it harder to take the longer term solution.

From Jay Forrester 1971 Book World Dynamics, the earlier, simpler version of the World 3 Limits to Growth Model. adapted from Mark Heffernan's ithink version at Systemswiki.

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A Fixes that Fail structure is one where the applied fix makes things better for a while and then things go awry.

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A Fixes that Fail structure is one where the applied fix makes things better for a while and then things go awry.

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With two different ways to address a situation with one being easier and faster which do you think gets implemented? The problem is that taking the easy path makes it harder to take the longer term solution.

With two different ways to address a situation with one being easier and faster which do you think gets implemented? The problem is that taking the easy path makes it harder to take the longer term solution.

A Fixes that Fail structure is one where the applied fix makes things better for a while and then things go awry.

Understanding Relationship and Their Implications: The Essence of AND?

A goal seeking structure with delay can be responsible for behavior that's quite difficult to intuit.

A goal seeking structure with delay can be responsible for behavior that's quite difficult to intuit.

The Limits to Growth Archetype demonstrates the manner in which initial growth may be slowed over time by a limiting factor.

An escalation structure results from two or more competing entities with the competition taking them to somewhere none of them want to be.

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A Fixes that Fail structure is one where the applied fix makes things better for a while and then things go awry.

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With two different ways to address a situation with one being easier and faster which do you think gets implemented? The problem is that taking the easy path makes it harder to take the longer term solution.