Almost all attention goes to parameters, subsidies, tax rates, knob settings, which sit at the very bottom of the leverage ranking. Almost nobody works the top: goals, rules, information flows, paradigms. > “Probably 90—no 95, no 99 percent—of our attention goes to parameters, but there's not a lot of leverage in them.”

— In our words · Source: Thinking in Systems (Donella H. Meadows)