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Shifting the Burden Weakens the Fundamental Solution Every Time the Symptomatic One is Used

Second-most-cited archetype and the one students confuse with fixes that fail, so the description carries the discriminating claim explicitly. Rests on arc-what-an-archetype-is and arc-fixes-that-fail (contrast) plus lop- balancing loops with delay. arc-addiction-dependence rests on it. Stops before organisational-change programme content, which the fence puts out of scope.

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The Shifting the Burden Archetype in System Dynamics

Shifting the burden is a system archetype composed of two interacting balancing loops: a symptomatic solution that relieves a problem's symptom quickly with few resources, and a fundamental solution …