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Donella Meadows

Explore Donella Meadows’ work on systems thinking, feedback loops, leverage points and changing structures that produce outcomes.

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Donella Meadows

Donella Meadows was an environmental scientist, educator and influential systems thinker. Her work made feedback loops, stocks, flows, delays and system boundaries accessible to leaders confronting complex problems.

Outcomes Lab profiles Meadows because leverage points help explain why some interventions change outcomes profoundly while others merely treat symptoms.

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