Bureaucratic Drift and Policy Decay
Why well-designed policies drift, accumulate exceptions, and quietly invert their original aims over time.
Parkinson's Law and March's garbage-can decision models converge: organizations optimize for self-preservation, not their founding mandate.
The LHS Lens treats policy decay as inherited-conditioning recursion — exceptions compounded year-over-year become the rule; transparency without active discontinuation rarely suffices to reverse it.
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