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28: Bring the Crowbar. Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System by Donella Meadows

Made You Think

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Is There a Band Aid to This?

Like authoritarian economies, like how alcohol money flows in the US is a really good example of this. I feel like top down systems have these pipes that are put in place, and you can probably play with those. But bottom up type of like free market type of systems, it'd be really tough to play with this variable in business,. One example I was thinking of internally is like productivity systems, right? So like project management, team management, how you do all of that. It's hard for that to develop organically in an organized way.

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