Seeing Correlating [Components] across Systems
Table of Analogies: (Places to Intervene in a System)
 | Gardening | ||||||
| Role-Plays
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| Embodiments (Dance/IntegratedStatues) | ||||
| Other activities:
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| Systems Glossary Table of Analogies |
| Places to Intervene in a System: |
| Places to Intervene in a System (in increasing order of effectiveness) |
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| Theory (Donella Meadows) |
Gardening | Dance | Family | Business | Conversation | Economy | Music | Medicine  |
Accounting | Law | Love | |
| 12. Constants, parameters, numbers (such as subsidies, taxes, standards) | ||||||||||||
| 11. The size of buffers and other stabilizing stocks, relative to their flows | ||||||||||||
| 10. The structure of material stocks and flows (such as transport network, population age structures) | ||||||||||||
| 9. The length of delays, relative to the rate of system changes | ||||||||||||
| 8. The strength of negative feedback loops, relative to the impact they are trying to correct against | ||||||||||||
| 7. The gain around driving positive feedback loops | ||||||||||||
| 6. The structure of information flow (who does and does not have access to what kinds of information) | ||||||||||||
| 5. The rules of the system (such as incentives, punishment, constraints) | ||||||||||||
| 4. The power to add, change, evolve, or self-organize system structure | ||||||||||||
| 3. The goal of the system | ||||||||||||
| 2. The mindset or paradigm out of which the system - its goals, structure, rules, delays, parameters - arise | ||||||||||||
| 1. The power to transcend paradigms | ||||||||||||
