Inclusive Decision Making Quotes

One of the benefits of a properly functioning democracy is minority rights and majority rule.

Take the ideas of the masses and concentrate them, then go to the masses, persevere in the ideas and carry them through, so as to form correct ideas of leadership-such is the basic method of leadership.

will anything but fanaticism make for change? Wisdom and compromise come later.

I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong.

The difference between a leadership and a command company can be very great indeed, because in a hierarchical situation, people who have concerns about reactions against themselves would simply not put forward negative information.

There is no name for all who participate in group decision-making or the organization which they form. I propose to call this organization the Technostructure.

Listen to Everyone. Ideas come from everywhere

Access to governance has to be guaranteed with transparent systems that deliver responses and outcomes. The strengthening of democratic governance empowers the population to become active partners in the growth process.

Policy, for the most part, has been made by white people in America, not by people of color. And they have tended to take care of those things that they think are important. Whether it's their agricultural subsidies, or other kinds of expenditures that are certainly not expenditures for poor people or for people of color. And so we have to band together and keep fighting back.

The best way to promote and protect opportunity is through collaboration, consensus-building, and pragmatic problem-solving. Throughout nearly 30 years in public service, I have approached tough challenges by making room for as many people as possible around the table in search of common ground.

No deliberation made by a single person will be successful; the nature of the work which a sovereign has to do is to be inferred from the consideration of both the visible and invisible causes. The clearance of doubts as to whatever is susceptible of two opinions, and the inference of the whole when only a part is seen is possible of decision only by ministers. Hence the king shall sit at deliberation with persons of wide intellect.

My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak... Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism... true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village.

How can we effect change in the world when only half of it is invited or feel welcome to participate in the conversation?

I have always tried to do my job in a way that I have people give me different points of view.

No more top-down politics with Westminster dictating what's right for every community. We must all be partners in designing a better future for our country.

I do want to see an immigration compromise. And you can't have an immigration compromise if everybody's out there calling the president a racist.

True greatness is measured by how much freedom you give to others, not by how much you can coerce others to do what you want.

Women still routinely get passed over when everyone sits around the table and says, "What's our list of 10, 20, 30 directors that we wanna put at the top of our list for this project?" You need more people who are either women who care about this issue or men who care about this issue, who are sitting in this room and saying, "Guys, where are the women? We need to be going out to women." And particularly in the projects that really could use a fresh feminine perspective, whatever that ultimately means.

It doesn't help to just get women's opinions and then turn them over to an all-white-male engineering team.

While transparency reduces corruption, good governance goes beyond transparency in achieving openness. Openness means involving the stakeholders in decision-making process. Transparency is the right to information while openness is the right to participation.

Democracy tends to be a collaborative process, a committee, a consensus.

Mere good governance is not enough; it has to be pro-people and pro-active. Good governance is putting people at the center of development process.

There are other forms of community-based decision-making, not unlike, you know, our elected bodies, except that the intention here is to exclude pay-to-play players from determining how these decisions are made.

Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.

I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do.