Decision Making

3.

System Structure and Dynamics

3.1.

Feedback Loop Fundamentals

3.1.1.

Causal Relationships

3.1.1.1.

3.1.1.2.

Polarity Identification

3.1.1.3.

3.1.1.4.

Multiple Causation

3.1.2.

Reinforcing Loops

3.1.2.1.

Growth Dynamics

3.1.2.2.

Exponential Change

3.1.2.3.

Virtuous Cycles

3.1.2.4.

3.1.2.5.

Collapse Dynamics

3.1.3.

Balancing Loops

3.1.3.1.

Goal-Seeking Behavior

3.1.3.2.

Homeostatic Mechanisms

3.1.3.3.

Stability Maintenance

3.1.3.4.

Constraint Mechanisms

3.1.4.

Loop Interactions

3.1.4.1.

3.1.4.2.

Shifting Dominance

3.1.4.3.

Loop Competition

3.1.4.4.

3.2.

Time Delays in Systems

3.2.1.

Types of Delays

3.2.1.1.

Material Delays

3.2.1.2.

Information Delays

3.2.1.3.

Perceptual Delays

3.2.1.4.

Processing Delays

3.2.2.

3.2.2.1.

Oscillation Patterns

3.2.2.2.

Overshoot Behavior

3.2.2.3.

Instability Creation

3.2.2.4.

Policy Lag Impacts

3.2.3.

Managing Delays

3.2.3.1.

Delay Recognition

3.2.3.2.

Anticipatory Actions

3.2.3.3.

Buffer Strategies

3.2.3.4.

Feedback Acceleration

3.3.

System Archetypes

3.3.1.

Growth-Related Patterns

3.3.1.1.

Limits to Growth

3.3.1.2.

Growth and Underinvestment

3.3.1.3.

Success to the Successful

3.3.2.

Problem-Solving Patterns

3.3.2.1.

Fixes that Fail

3.3.2.2.

Shifting the Burden

3.3.2.3.

Shifting the Burden to the Intervener

3.3.3.

Interpersonal Patterns

3.3.3.1.

3.3.3.2.

Accidental Adversaries

3.3.4.

Organizational Patterns

3.3.4.1.

Tragedy of the Commons

3.3.4.2.

3.3.4.3.

Attractiveness Principle

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