Humans success stories are dominated by cooperation between specialists with a shared goal, while human failures are dominated by competition.
Even though this observation is easy to defend, strategic organisation of the UK does not reflect it. The government itself is disabled by the competition inherent in politics. From the start, education teaches us to be competitive at an individual level and rates us on that ability. The emphasis should instead be on reward for cooperation. We should be celebrating and rewarding the ability to work as a specialist member of a team with a shared strategic goal.
Change for the better in the UK should be predicated on this change in emphasis. The current style of government owes much to its competitive animal roots, it does not reflect what we have learned of success as humans.
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Success
Saturday, March 6th, 2010Better government – the big idea
Monday, January 11th, 2010Good visionary ideas are not easy to create. Even when one has created a paradigm shifting idea, it can be difficult for others to see. Most people can only see the value of the idea when more open minded and visionary people have endorsed it.
This idea takes a big step, it abandons politics entirely and so demands more of those prepared to open their minds to new ideas. In doing that it poses a communication challenge. This is more than constitutional change, it is a completely new form of government. Try to be open to looking afresh at the huge problems it solves and how they are endemic to the current systems of government.
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Hungarian expert government
Thursday, January 21st, 2010It came to my attention, and here, that in Hungary the idea of Expert Government has received some consideration.
Perhaps Hungary can show the world the way forward.
The examples of expert government mentioned in this article were mostly weak transitional arrangements, where political government had broken down. They lacked the vision proposed here. This form of expert government advocates many experts in narrow local and central specialisations, and critically maintains the integrity of expert decisions with a non-hierarchical influence structure.
Tags: Alliance of Free Democrats, Élet és Irodalom, EU, Ferenc Gyurcsány, Fidesz, Hungary, Jobbik, MDF, SZDSZ, Zoltán Kovács
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