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A Balancing Loop Settles at Its Goal, So Changing the Goal Beats Fighting the Loop

The goals rung. Rests on lev-leverage-ladder-orders-intervention-points and on lop- (balancing loop is goal-seeking), and it is the required parent of lev-goodhart-the-measure-becomes-the-target. It touches bnd-'s territory twice and stops at both lines: POSIWID (purpose is what the system does) is bnd-'s claim and is used here only as the method for finding a goal, and policy resistance as a general phenomenon stays with bnd-.

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Leverage Points in Systems Thinking

Leverage points are places within a system where a targeted intervention can produce a disproportionately large shift in system behavior, and systems thinking (per Donella Meadows) ranks these points…