Reference #391: Thinking in Systems
Meadows identified twelve places within a system to find leverage points. From lowest to highest leverage, they are as follows:
- Numbers
- Buffers
- Stock-and-flow structures
- Delays
- Balancing feedback loops
- Reinforcing feedback loops
- Information flows
- Rules
- Self-organisation
- Goals
- Paradigms
- Transcending paradigms
Meadows. Thinking in Systems, 2008. (146-164)