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Dancing With Systems
PLACES TO INTERVENE IN A SYSTEM
(in increasing order of effectiveness)
- Constants, parameters, numbers (subsidies, taxes, standards).
- Regulating negative feedback loops.
- Driving positive feedback loops.
- Material flows and nodes of material intersection.
- Information flows.
- The rules of the system (incentives, punishments, constraints).
- The distribution of po
Donella Meadows • Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System
If you want to understand the deepest malfunctions of systems, pay attention to the rules and to who has power over them.
Donella H. Meadows • Thinking in Systems: International Bestseller
I submit that those two somethings—a resistance to and a recognition of systems principles—come from two kinds of human experience, both of which are familiar to everyone.