Scientific Definition
Outputs of a system are routed back as inputs, amplifying or dampening change.
Plain-English Definition
Outputs of a system are routed back as inputs, amplifying or dampening change.
Feynman Explanation
What the system produces, the system consumes.
Core Principle
Outputs of a system are routed back as inputs, amplifying or dampening change.
Mechanisms
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Outputs of a system are routed back as inputs, amplifying or dampening change.
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Organizations are built on feedback loops, intentional and accidental.
Inputs (Triggers)
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Outputs (Behaviors)
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Behavioral Signature
What the system produces, the system consumes.
Examples
- Customer complaints improve the product, which attracts more customers.
- Organizations are built on feedback loops, intentional and accidental.
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Famous Experiments
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Design Principles
- Design loops that reward the behavior you want repeated.
Measurement Approaches
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Evidence
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The Perverse Incentive Lens™
How this behavior is exploited — and how to redesign around it.
- Design loops that reward the behavior you want repeated.
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Interactive Mini Network
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Knowledge Graph Neighbors
Auto-linked to the rest of the Human Behavior Taxonomy by family, domain, dimension, and shared keywords.
Old systems decline as new ones emerge in parallel; leaders steward both, not just kill the old or chase the new.
Map reinforcing (R) and balancing (B) feedback loops between variables to see system behavior.
A system with many interacting parts that learn and adapt.
Many interacting parts producing emergent behavior nobody designed.
Interdependent network of actors evolving together.
The whole has properties that the individual parts do not.
Systems maintain stability by self-regulating around a setpoint.
Stocks are accumulations; flows are rates of change that affect them.
Behavior emerges from structure, not from individuals.
Systems that gain from disorder.
Approach motivation — pursuit of rewards and goals.
Avoidance motivation — sensitivity to punishment, uncertainty, and threat.