The Masters of Change

Change & leadership

Donella Meadows

A systems thinker who explored feedback, delays and interventions in complex systems. Her leverage-points essay invites questioning goals and assumptions.

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CORE FRAMEWORK · ORIGINAL SUMMARY

Seek leverage in feedback, rules, goals and paradigms.

Leverage Points

Reverse-engineer. Don’t idolize.

What the herd copied

Diagrams without decisions.

What actually worked

Examining how rules reproduce outcomes.

What survives

Change mechanisms and monitor unintended effects.

Use it Monday at work

Make a company decision.

Map a company feedback loop and propose one information-flow or rule change.

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