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MENTAL MODEL · M6482

AGIL

AGIL
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Version 1.0.0 · Updated 2026-07-30

CORE DEFINITION

Adaptation: acquiring resources from the environment. Goal Attainment: setting and achieving goals. Integration: internal coordination. Latency: maintenance of culture and values.

SCAFFOLDING EFFECT

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The survival rules of social systems. Any system (whether a nation or a small team) must simultaneously fulfill these four functions to survive. If a team focuses only on performance (G) and neglects team building (I) and culture (L), the system will collapse.

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Based on 'functionalist systems theory' (Parsons). Any action system must satisfy the four functions of adaptation, goal attainment, integration, and latency to persist; imbalance leads to system instability.

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