How Great Decisions Get Made
How Great Decisions Get Made: 10 Easy Steps for Reaching Agreement on Even the Toughest Issues (Hardcover) by Don Maruska, Margaret J. Wheatley
1) enlist everyone including secretaries and maintenance folks;
2) discover shared hopes rather than differing problems;
3) uncover the real issues;
4) identify all options;
5) gather the right information, and all of it;
6) get everything on the table;
7) write down choices;
8) map the solutions;
9) look ahead; and
10) stay charged up.
Well, sociocracy guarantees 1) and 6). To some extent consent decision-making encourages 2): any problem that one person brings up is the problem of each and every person in the circle. Many of the others happen because sociocracy utilizes the intelligence and creativity of everyone involved.
Thabida, thabida, thabida, thabida, thabida, thabida, thabidazall folks!
