{
  "schema": "vedokrok.public-item.v1",
  "release_id": "MHC-RPUB-20260920-75ad787a",
  "url": "/knowledge/look-for-incentives-that-reward-the-failure-mode",
  "id": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-9162",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "title": "Look for incentives that reward the failure mode",
  "summary": "Repeated behavior can be locally rewarded by the system.",
  "kind": "protocol",
  "body": "List what the actor gains or avoids by the failing behavior: time, metric performance, risk transfer, status or workload. Remove the perverse incentive or add a countervailing control.",
  "limits": [
    "Leverage-point and information-value heuristics are prompts, not guaranteed effect sizes. Test interventions, monitor side effects and stop when evidence changes."
  ],
  "topics": [
    "union-systems-strategy-and-leverage-thinking"
  ],
  "intents": [],
  "source_ids": [
    "RS-EA64347094A93DB4"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    {
      "claim": "Meadows' leverage-points framework widens intervention search from parameters and buffers toward information flows, rules, goals and paradigms while explicitly cautioning that the list is not a recipe.",
      "source_id": "RS-EA64347094A93DB4",
      "role": "contextualizes",
      "note": "The proposed ordering is a systems-thinking heuristic, not a universal causal effect-size ranking.",
      "locator": "Places to intervene and concluding caveats"
    }
  ],
  "use_when": [
    "When a recurring failure persists despite training and reminders."
  ],
  "avoid_when": [
    "Leverage-point and information-value heuristics are prompts, not guaranteed effect sizes. Test interventions, monitor side effects and stop when evidence changes."
  ],
  "example": "Teams skip early documentation because delivery metrics count releases but not future support effort; reminders alone do not change the payoff.",
  "check": "The corrective action changes the local payoff or information, not only the message.",
  "steps": [
    "Name the recurring failure.",
    "Identify local benefits of that behavior.",
    "Identify who bears the delayed cost.",
    "Redesign the incentive or feedback path."
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "RS-EA64347094A93DB4",
      "title": "Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System",
      "url": "https://donellameadows.org/archives/leverage-points-places-to-intervene-in-a-system/"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "from": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-9162",
      "to": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-9163",
      "type": "useful_with",
      "url": "/knowledge/prefer-interventions-that-alter-feedback-not-just-output"
    }
  ],
  "collections": [
    {
      "id": "RC-28D91C30CEA1CB4A",
      "title": "Systems and strategic leverage: feedback, flow, modularity, robust options, and information value",
      "url": "/collections/systems-and-strategic-leverage-feedback-flow-modularity-robust-options-and-information-value"
    }
  ]
}