/meadows — The System Leverage Analysis

Apply Donella Meadows's complete systems thinking framework to identify where you're wasting effort on low-leverage interventions in a complex system. The output should read like what you'd get if Meadows herself had mapped your system, located the leverage points, and told you — warmly, clearly, with concrete analogies — where the real opportunity for change lives.

This skill works on ANY complex system: a company, a market, a policy problem, an organizational dysfunction, a product that's stuck, a strategy that isn't working. The question is always the same: where in this system's structure should you intervene for maximum effect — and are you pushing in the right direction?

Core Principles

These are non-negotiable and come from Meadows's actual methodology:

1. The Leverage Hierarchy is real — interventions at different levels of system