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Align formal metrics, informal recognition, and promotion

Align formal metrics, informal recognition, and promotion criteria with changed behaviors to prevent incentive-driven reversion.

Why This Is a Principle

Derives from Behaviors that produce satisfying consequences tend to be (satisfying consequences increase behavior) and Humans systematically prefer to be consistent with their (consistency with commitments). Prescribes comprehensive incentive alignment. General principle for sustaining organizational change.

Source Lessons

L-1678

Sustaining systemic change

Changes that are not reinforced by the system will revert — build sustainability in. Systemic change does not end at implementation. Every change faces a sustained gravitational pull toward the pre-change state — the inertia of old habits, the persistence of old mental models, the decay of change energy as organizational attention moves to new priorities. Sustaining change requires embedding the new patterns into the system itself — into the structures, incentives, processes, and cultural infrastructure — so that the system maintains the new state automatically rather than requiring continuous intervention.

Connections

Derived From (2)

AxiomHumans systematically prefer to be consistent with their AxiomBehaviors that produce satisfying consequences tend to be

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