Leverage Points Are Ranked, So Where You Intervene Matters More than How Hard You Push
The organising node for lev-. Rests on the entry floor plus stk- (stocks, flows, buffers, delays) and lop- (balancing and reinforcing loops), whose vocabulary the ladder names. Every other lev- node is one rung or one consequence of a rung, so this is the required parent for all of them. Stops at the bnd- line: the paradigm rung is named as the top of the ladder, but the claim that mental models generate structure belongs to bnd- and is linked, not restated.
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…