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Business & Systems · Finished Aug 2026 · Audiobook
Thinking in Systems
4.17/5
Read this if
- “I fix something and it comes back a month later.”
- “My results swing wildly even though my effort is constant.”
- “I pull the obvious lever and nothing changes.”
What it’s about
- Stocks, flows, and feedback loops; delays in a loop cause oscillation and overcorrection.
- A system's behavior is a property of the system itself, not of the people in it.
- Leverage points are ranked: parameters are the weakest, changing the paradigm is the strongest.
From the book
“Purposes are deduced from behavior, not from rhetoric or stated goals.”Donella Meadows
“Remember, always, that everything you know, and everything everyone knows, is only a model.”Donella Meadows
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