**Simply put, this paper changed my life.**
PLACES TO INTERVENE IN A SYSTEM (in increasing order of effectiveness) by Donella H. Meadows
In this slide I have transformed Meadows' the leverage points into a framework of four questions for exploring complex socio-technical systems. It always works. Everyone can understand it--the four nested questions.
Pierson Elaboration/Interpretation of Donella Meadows Leverage Points paper.
SEE: Donella Meadows famous paper: Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a Systems 
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**System Discovery Process**
First--Shared Understanding Second--Discover Leverage Points Third--Model Your System Innovations Fourth--Do the Experiment
12- Constants, parameters, numbers (such as subsidies, taxes, standards). 11- The sizes of buffers and other stabilizing stocks, relative to their flows. 10- The structure of material stocks and flows (such as transport networks, population age structures). 9- The lengths of delays, relative to the rate of system change. 8- The strength of negative feedback loops, relative to the impacts they are trying to correct against. 7- The gain around driving positive feedback loops. 6- The structure of information flows (who does and does not have access to information). 5- The rules of the system (such as incentives, punishments, constraints). 4- The power to add, change, evolve, or self-organize system structure. (power to self-organize 3- The goals of the system. 2- The mindset or paradigm out of which the system — its goals, structure, rules, delays, parameters — arises. 1- The power to transcend paradigms.
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# Links from Wiki sources.
1. The power to transcend paradigms
2. The mindset or paradigm out of which the system--its goals, structure, rules, delays, parameters--arises
3. The goals of the system
4. The power to add, change, evolve, or self-organized system structure
5. The rules of the system (such as incentives, punishments, constraints)
6. The structure of information flows (who does and does not have access to what kinds of information)
7. The gain around driving positive feedback loops
8. The strength of negative feedback loops , relative to the impacts they are trying to correct against
9. The lengths of delays , relative to the rate of system change
10. The structure of material stocks and flows (such as transport networks, population age structures)
11. The sizes of buffers and other stabilizing stocks, relative to their flows
12. Constants, parameters , numbers (such as subsidies, taxes, standards).