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A System Pushes Back Because Several Actors Are Pulling One Thing Toward Different Goals

Terminal node of bnd-, resting on bnd-bounded-rationality-by-position, bnd-purpose-is-what-it-does, bnd-sub-optimisation and bnd-shared-mental-models. Explains the counterintuitive behaviour that arc- catalogues as named archetypes and that lev- must overcome; deliberately states the general mechanism and names no archetype, since arc- owns every one. Also stops before ranking interventions, which is lev-.

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Policy Resistance in System Dynamics

Policy resistance is a system dynamics concept describing how well-intentioned interventions are delayed, diluted, or defeated by the unforeseen adaptive reactions of a system's underlying structure,…