Dancing with Systems, Donella H. Meadows

Seeing the System

The Dance

1. Get the beat.

2. Listen to the wisdom of the system.

3. Expose your mental models to the open air.

4. Stay humble. Stay a learner.

5. Honor and protect information.

6. Locate responsibility in the system.

7. Make feedback policies for feedback systems.

8. Pay attention to what is important, not just what is quantifiable.

9. Go for the good of the whole.

10. Expand time horizons.

11. Expand thought horizons.

12. Expand the boundary of caring.

13. Celebrate complexity.

14. Hold fast to the goal of goodness.

Here are the four parts of a Lecture given by Donella Meadows on Sustainable Systems: