Example of the exponential decay of a Stock with the decay rate being a function of a decay constant.

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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. See also Archetypes.

Investigations into the relationships responsible for the success and failure of nations. This investigation was prompted after reading numerous references on the subject and perceiving that *Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty* by Acemoglu and Robinson seem to make a great deal of sense.

There are numerous influences which work against the possibility of sustainable capitalism though there are a few that might be put in place to actually support its emergence.

This model introduces the S/O and +/- notation for depicting the relations that might exist between two elements along with why the +/- notation is preferred.

The Exponential Growth Archetype is a reinforcing structure which promotes exponential growth. This is one of the two foundation archetypes. The other being the goal seeking structure. See also Archetypes.

A map of the elements associated with Systems Thinking as defined by different sources.

The strategy is actually a set of structural changes that have to be made to the relationships that cause the future to be different than the past.

Two goal seeking structures attempting to resolve and based on the delay one may tend to settle for less. See also Archetypes.

Folders allow one to hide the detail complexity in certain places.

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This diagram presents the valid relationships between stocks, flows, and parameters. Ghosts of Stocks, Flows, and Converters can be created as needed.

The delays associated with adjusting the shower is a very common example of the Balancing Loop with Delay Systems Archetype. 

The meaningful relationship between a business and its customers should be a reinforcing structure.

Network Magic can be considered to have four primary stakeholders, the company, Support, Other Organizations, and Customers.

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A System is a matter of perspective.

Our actions are based on our beliefs and the results of those actions are the basis for our beliefs. The difficulty we create for ourselves is that we make assumptions as to how to interpret the results we select based on our beliefs. As a result we are often operating on a flawed perspective of reality.

New Learning tend to reduce Outdated Thinking, Communicating & Learning though our Outdated Thinking, Communicating & Learning inhibits new learning. The question is then how do we break this cycle. Adopted from "An Introduction to Systems Thinking with STELLA" by Barry Richmond.

Being fascinated with systemigrams I wondered if I could create them in Insight Maker.

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This common archetype of systems that include relapse or recidivism allows exploration of the unintended effects of increasing upstream capacity and swamping downstream capacity. The increase in the relapse rate eventually returns to swamp upstream capacity as well. A social welfare example, based on a TANF case study, from How Small System Dynamics Models Can Help the Policy Process. N. Ghaffarzadegan, J. Lyneis, GP Richardson. System Dynamics Review 27,1 (2011) 22-44 Conference version at http://bit.ly/HlxtZj

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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. See also Archetypes.

Model supporting research of investment vs. austerity implications. Please refer to Modern Money & Public Purpose Video.

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Before we can begin to sort out how to approach this situation it's appropriate to identify the relevant stakeholders and their motivations.

Newtonian Cooling is an example of the exponential decay of a stock with the decay rate dependent on the environment.

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Once the strategy is developed the relationship model must evolve to represent that implementation appropriately sequenced.