Leverage points

Question 1

What are leverage points?

Answer 1

Leverage points are places in the systems that you can intervene (change) to change the entire system

Question 2

What are the 12 leverage points? (From weak to strong)

Answer 2

12. Numbers
13. Buffers
14. Stock-and-flow structures
15. Delays
16. Balancing feedback loops
17. reinforcing feedback loops
18. information flows
19. Rules
20. Self-organization
21. Goals
22. Paradigms
23. Transcending paradigms

Question 3

Numbers

Answer 3

Constants and parameters (subsidies, taxes, standards)

When you change these numbers, the system will behave differently.

Question 4

Buffers

Answer 4

Buffers are stabilizing stocks.

When stocks are larger then their flows, they are more stable than small ones.

Question 5

Stock-and-flow structures

Answer 5

These are the physical systems and their nodes of intersection.
When a system is laid out poorly it can help to rebuild it. Other stocks and flows are just unchangable

Question 6

Delays

Answer 6

The lengths of time relative to the rates of system changes.
Delays are common causes of occulations.
A delay can help to get the right ammount of a stock, (in the case that a product takes time to develop, but also last for 30 years)

Question 7

Balancing feedback loops

Answer 7

The strength of the feedback relative to the impacts they are trying to correct.

Question 8

Reinforcing feedback loops

Answer 8

The strength of the gain of driving loops

Question 9

Information flows

Answer 9

the structure who has/has not access to the information. The knowledge on the information can have an effect on the acts

Question 10

Rules

Answer 10

Rules are incentives, punishments or constraints, that help keep the system in a certain structure. A change of rules will end up in a change of the entire system

Question 11

Self-Organization

Answer 11

the ability to add, change or evolve the system structure.
Self organization means that it can change any element lower on this list. It is the strongest form of system resillience

Question 12

Goals

Answer 12

A goal is the purpose of the system.

Changing the goal or purpose will end up in changing all elements beneath the goal in order to make that goal

Question 13

Paradigms

Answer 13

The mind-set out of which the system, its goals, structures, rules, delays, parameters arises. if you change a paradigm, the system will also change immensely

Question 14

Transcending paradigms

Answer 14

Keep oneself unattached in the arena of paradigms, stay flexible, realize no paradigm is trye.