Leverage Points
Videos: Iceberg part 1 and part 2
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The best way to deepen your understanding of the “Iceberg” principle is to read the classic essay by Donella Meadows:
“Leverage Points – Places to Intervene in a System.”
- Notice how Dana breaks the 2-3 “areas” in the iceberg into 9 areas, and applies the idea beyond climate to all types of systems.
- A second resource is the “Slinky story” from Thinking in Systems , also by Donella Meadows.
Reinforcing Feedback
- A classic by Donella Meadows: Nothing So Powerful as an Exponential whose Time has Come