decision-making

Decision-Growing: When Content and Process Come Together

September 28, 2011

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When we are part of a community, some decisions are made that impact the way we live and interact with each other – it’s not just about the content being decided, but the process that took us there. On the other hand, there are issues that need to be dealt with, and avoiding them only [...]

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A Soul Generated by Love

October 31, 2010

MLK

Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to have your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don’t have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don’t have to know Einstein’s theory of relativity to serve. You don’t [...]

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Community Trust and Effective Decision-Making

July 4, 2009

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Participatory design becomes real in a sense of community – creating community and building on the social fabric is essential for trust to emerge among stakeholders and towards the whole process. Trust in community and in the process makes effective participatory design. We are talking about social systems, but this understanding also applies to PD [...]

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Decision-Making and Automatisms

October 9, 2008

francoise1

I’ve got some questions about my last post on this affirmation: “the act of continuous decision-making requires an automatism”. Perhaps that a bad way of express what I mean. Decisions are not made by only responding, so what I really mean is that it is a great support for decision-making when we have a framework [...]

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