Boundaries for Leaders (Enhanced Edition): Results, Relationships, and Being Ridiculously In Charge

“Shifting the burden” structures show that any long-term solution must, as Meadows says, “strengthen the ability of the system to shoulder its own burdens.”

4. Continue the story back to your starting place. Use phrases that show causal interrelationship: “This in turn, causes …” or “… which influences …” or “… then adversely affects …”

Moreover, since structure in human systems includes the “operating policies” of the decision makers in the system, redesigning our own decision making redesigns the system structure.

The most successful people—the Big Picture Thinkers—don’t try to do everything. Instead, they hand things off.