Mechanism
Reporting is redesigned to protect authority, so the system loses the feedback required to adapt.
Enabling conditions
- Punishment for unwelcome signals
- Metrics owned by the actors they evaluate
- No protected escalation path
Failure modes
- Decision-makers act on a manufactured picture of reality
- Risk accumulates invisibly until recovery becomes expensive
Diagnostic questions
- 1.Which bad news is hardest to report safely?
- 2.Can the source and transformation of a headline metric be audited?