# Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System ![rw-book-cover](https://donellameadows.org/wp-content/themes/donellameadows/images/logo-2.gif) ## Metadata - Author: [[The Academy for Systems Change]] - Full Title: Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System - Category: #articles - URL: https://donellameadows.org/archives/leverage-points-places-to-intervene-in-a-system/ ## Highlights Counterintuitive. That’s Forrester’s word to describe complex systems. Leverage points are not intuitive. Or if they are, we intuitively use them backward, systematically worsening whatever problems we are trying to solve. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gw9mj9wm1g44xjgw8hg9hkcq))