A Balancing Loop Seeks a Goal and Slows Down as the Gap Closes
The behaviour half of the balancing loop, and the node that makes policy resistance and every corrective archetype legible. Rests on lop-feedback-loop and lop-count-negative-links-for-loop-type. lop-delay-in-a-balancing-loop and arc- fixes-that-fail / eroding-goals rest on it. Related prod Ideas: Negative Feedback Loop and Homeostasis and Set Points state the stabilising mechanism; this node claims the implicit goal and the decelerating gap curve. Control mathematics stays outside the fence.
Balancing Loops in Systems Thinking
A balancing loop is a type of causal feedback loop in which a change in one variable propagates around a chain of cause-and-effect relationships and ultimately produces a change in the opposite direc…