Create Your Own “Limits to Growth” Story

Create Your Own “Limits to Growth” Story
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The limits to growth structure not only applies in professional life but also personal. Last year I was enthusiastic to train more on biking/ cycling and joined hands with professional cyclists to offer training. As the level of training increased and the group became more visible, there were increased enquiries from people as word spread around through word of mouth. This also generated enthusiasm among my friends who were not active cyclists but six months into the program we were overwhelmed by the number of recruits as there were limited resources to offer adequate training. By the seventh month people waited for long to enter into the program and we became overwhelmed, and the number of enquiries slowed down as were the participants. Clearly we had become overstretched and generating negative publicity.

What are the key systemic variables?
The key variables influence the system and are considered when identifying the elements that influence the system. The key variables interacting in the system are resources, reputation training capacity, participants’ numbers, trainers and the trainees. The variables all interact to produce the system, based on the assumptions that there is feedback between the self-reinforcing and the self-correcting loop.
When is the reinforcing loop dominant?
The reinforcing loop reinforces the initial action and represents rapid growth or the reinforcing decline. The ability to shift the dominant structure in this case is the group’s reputation with the word of mouth being vital to success. The reinforcing lo...