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Close feedback loops by pairing every sensing mechanism with

Close feedback loops by pairing every sensing mechanism with a defined correction mechanism, responsible party, and authority to act.

Why This Is a Principle

This derives from Agents are systems defined by perceiving their environment (agents perceive and act), Behavior requires an initiating signal to occur at a (behavior requires initiating signal), and Behavior occurs when three elements converge simultaneously: (behavior requires motivation, ability, prompt). It's a design principle for systems: sensing without correction is incomplete. Not foundational itself but follows from axioms about agency and behavior initiation.

Source Lessons

L-1686

Organizational feedback systems

Built-in mechanisms for the organization to learn from its own performance. Organizational feedback systems are the sensing and correction mechanisms that enable an organization to detect deviation, learn from experience, and adjust behavior without management intervention. In hierarchical organizations, the manager is the feedback system — they observe performance, identify problems, and direct corrections. In self-directing organizations, feedback systems are embedded in the organizational infrastructure — metrics, reviews, signals, and processes that make performance visible and trigger correction automatically. The quality of an organization's feedback systems determines the speed and accuracy of its self-correction.

Connections

Derived From (3)

AxiomAgents are systems defined by perceiving their environment AxiomBehavior requires an initiating signal to occur at a AxiomBehavior occurs when three elements converge simultaneously:

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