Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System - The Donella Meadows Project
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The Systems Work of Social Change: How to Harness Connection, Context, and Power to Cultivate Deep and Enduring Change
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PLACES TO INTERVENE IN A SYSTEM
(in increasing order of effectiveness)
- Constants, parameters, numbers (such as subsidies, taxes, standards).
- The sizes of buffers and other stabilizing stocks, relative to their flows.
- The structure of material stocks and flows (such as transport networks, population age structures).
- The lengths of delays, relative to the
Donella Meadows • Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System
We need to place ourselves in the system and influence it at points where the minimal effort and resources will create the largest long term influence - the leverage points.