Now published: Leverage Points for Sustainability Transformation
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Now published: Leverage Points for Sustainability Transformation
“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.”
Peter M. Senge • The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization
as you add links, to test them also as “loops.” Identify each new loop as “balancing” (moving toward stability) or “reinforcing” (pushing growth or decline) based only on its behavior: regardless of the number of factors or elements it contains, or its position in the diagram.
Art Kleiner • The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies for Building a Learning Organization
En 2009, un groupe international de spécialistes des systèmes de la Terre, ayant à leur tête Johan Rockström et Will Steffen, se sont posé la question et ont identifié neuf processus critiques – comme le système climatique et le cycle de l’eau douce – qui, ensemble, régulent la capacité de la Terre à préserver des conditions semblables à celles de
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MIT’s Jay Forrester likes to say that the average manager can define the current problem very cogently, identify the system structure that leads to the problem, and guess with great accuracy where to look for leverage points—places in the system where a small change could lead to a large shift in behavior. This idea of leverage points is not unique
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