Loop Dossiers
Patterns that make systems behave badly
Readable diagnostics for recurring failures
Use these dossiers to inspect how pressure, incentives, and weak boundaries produce the same problems again and again.
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Authority Override
When delegated authority holds only until pressure arrives.
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Concentrated Fragility
When resilience looks strong until too much depends on too few people or nodes.
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Credibility Ransom
When trust gets spent to keep commitments the system cannot support cleanly.
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The Discount Spiral
When commercial pressure teaches the system to trade away its own margin and clarity.
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Founder Override
When formal structure exists, but one person can still overrule it at will.
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Hero Employee Syndrome
When exceptional people absorb chronic system failures and hide the real constraint.
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Schedule Drift
When plans keep slipping because the operating system rewards interruption.
Need diagnosis beyond the pattern library?
The dossiers help name recurring dynamics. The diagnostic work determines which ones are active in your system.