Term
Reinforcing loop
Feedback that keeps pushing a change further in the same direction, like a snowball: savings growing from interest, soil erosion. The book calls it a reinforcing feedback loop.
Thinking in Systems: A Primer, Donella Meadows
Explained in
- Thinking in Systems: A Primer, Donella Meadows
- The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization, Peter Senge
Feedback that accelerates what is happening: growth leads to more growth, decline to more decline.