Thoughts - when is democracy the wrong decision making process
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British government used a democratic process to name a $300 million research vessel. Results came in, guess what name won in a landslide...
Then the back-tracking, quarrels, finger pointing and negative press began. Sad state, they meant well but did not do well.
In the end, the government has now cancelled the democratic process and assigned a name (using a process that is unknown and was not shared to the public). Government released a story on what happened, using a deflective and smoothing strategy, and has since focused on moving forward and trying to sweep it under the carpet lol.
It is a reminder about the power of social media - they get more votes then city elections!!!
It is also a reminder, you cannot take things on without having a project plan. The plan has to take into consideration the process of planning, monitoring, execution and play out multiple scenarios based on risks.
A key thing they mis-understood was the decision process that was selected.
There is such a high variance and set of risks when going to such a large group. They could have selected a Consultive decision making process, as per definitions below:
Decision Making Process Tools:
1) Autocratic - one person makes the deicsion, take it or leave it
1) Autocratic - one person makes the deicsion, take it or leave it
2) Consultive - get collective feedback from the group, however, then one person makes the deicsion based on taking into consideration the feedback that was provided by the stakeholders invited
3) Democratic - openly ask the group and majority rules
4) Consultive - must have 100% agreement by the entire group
They all have their strengths but also their weaknesses, leverage each one strategically.
A couple other links that touch on decision making process are below:
If you wanted to get more formalized, technical and systematic, below is a link that also has a ton of other good sub-links:
http://www.decision-making-confidence.com/decision-making-tools.html
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23 December 2017 at 03:27
When it becomes a clinck for the people instead of helping, feeding and protecting the people it starts snatching from them so the problem raises and
25 December 2017 at 03:39
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