"Every act of measurement disturbs the system being measured.
Notice the word measurement. In a scaling issue where efficiency and resilience pull apart, it pulls the quote out of inspiration and into mechanism: what repeats is what the system allows. That is why intent is never enough.
In a scaling issue where efficiency and resilience pull apart, the temptation is to optimize the visible part and assume the rest will adapt. That is how good intentions become bad outcomes. You see it in availability goals that push risk into an unmeasured dependency. Define the decision rights before the crisis, or the crisis will define them for you.
Donella H. Meadows is a reminder to keep it concrete. Write the win and the cost as two lines, so neither becomes invisible. Keep it short enough to remember under stress.