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"Blockhead is a classic game in which players take turn piling wooden block atop each other until the whole edifice topples; the last player to have placed a block loses."
...and goes on to describe the software version of the game, in which pieces of code are piled upon one another until the function comes crashing down, unfixable.
There's another version that I've observed, in which an organization's management reacts to every unforeseen event or problem with band-aid policies, processes, or measurements, resulting in a mishmash of conflicting, debilitating, and sub-optimizing behaviors.
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