Person

Donella H Meadows

Systems thinker and writer on leverage points, feedback loops, and learning to intervene in complex systems without hubris.

Why this matters

Meadows is a core reference for serious systems—where to push, what resists, and why small changes sometimes move everything.

Works

book

Thinking in Systems: A Primer

Meadows, Donella H. *Thinking in Systems: A Primer*. Edited by Diana Wright. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 2008.

Related books

Book

How Serious Systems Learn

Disciplines for Acting Without Certainty

A handbook for teams and institutions that need to learn in motion, improve under pressure, and make better decisions without waiting for perfect information.

Book

Living in Sediment

How Structures Outlive Their Reasons

We live inside inherited systems built for constraints that no longer exist. When structures survive after their reasons disappear, meaning drifts—and the danger is forgetting the sediment is sediment.