The vast majority of Issues that any Individual, Organization, or Community faces are General Issues / General Problems / General Needs common to All.
The key to General Issues is to forge General Solutions so that we are not continually "reinventing the wheel", but rather continuously improving a General Solution that is available to All.
A Patterns of Failure is to treat General Issues as if they were Specific Issues, and attempt to solve them one at a time each time they are encountered.