If you say you don't have some information to make a decision, please make sure you haven't lost a file, a contact or a guideline . a precedent
YOU are qualified to make decisions, just make them- even if you qualify them and make sure you do them in a timely manner (depending on the situation) no procrastination.
In the future, you may be rewarded for how few delays, consultancies and referrals you feel you had to make to persons who remain unnamed and unaccountable for accountability and sustainability purposes. In case you have noticed, its the planner's job to quickly and finally integrate the various concerns of others, so that sustainability decisions are made by you in a very timely manner.
The otherwise most amazing King Canute was given a hard time because his own caution about just powerful he was,( was not) was not matched by many of those who worked for him. The public service were not doing the planning job he expected them to do; to be practical realists who were confident to make real world decisions.
Not only did he have an incompetent and inefficient public service He ALSO must have been a very wise leader because he knew his limitations. We pray to have more such leaders. and people who listen more carefully
The courtiers of his day overrated their power to keep their economies going. The mines which had made his Country rich were running short.
BUT worse has come
The courtiers of our day have often overrated their power and relied too much on their position instead of their ability to understand the complex ecologies of economy.
Worse --modern leaders of Western democracies are elected on the basis of highly inflated ideas of what new innovations and tecnology can do. Read Ellul and Whitehead
Modern westerners have let the idea of progress and experimentation allow them and their agents to go exploring (and wasting taxes) in fields where even courageous old scientists would not ever go . This is wrong and must be stopped by an insistence on competency in research and action spending.
Sound hope is one thing we can sometimes find with competent leaders, but false hope is much more common and more appealing to many.
In Australia in Nov 2024, Greenlabor expects our homes to run on forms of battery power than have not even been invented yet.
Careless experimentation and the licensing to do it so must be stopped in favor of you making the best decision you can -When it comes to risk management that is all we expect. .
The Republican mandate USA
WE wish them the best, but we pray they will listen to those who know HOW to care properly.
Otherwise, all these great and good intentions will come to nothing; They can, by throwing the baby out with the dirt in the bathwater, be worse. read Ellul
Those of us who really know how to care have seen it all before.
The wannabes see the waste, but that's not new; any fool can see THE PROBLEM .
What wannabes often cannot see is that they do not see the SOLUTION. That missing ingredient and recipe require a fair bit of HOW. Ineffective ways of how where and why of public process can litter modern risk management with huge waste (time and resources ).
The public service is full of talk of good intentions and that is one of its biggest hidden handicaps .We must be effective carers if we are to be paid.
Talk is not enough , so those who real record is "not on the ground "should be questioned,
Those who can't immediately make a decision on the ground should also be questioned.
The process of sound reform
Before the weed pulling occurs though , the whole place should be harvested to find what is still good inside the system.
The careless wannabes see the problem so clearly that they are motivated only to action, The not so wise go where the angels fear to thread ( because they are ignorant of the complexity of decision making in care work) ,I f leaders are there only as agents of new change, they should not be there.
Really effective care takes years to learn and perpetuate; its a profession based not only on sound education BUT sound application. With the new ideas generation at the doorstep, its the mature stable and sustainable work methods (respect for EFFECTIVE application and experience ) that must be recognized first. Care focused on Growth is also complex and multi faceted , Sometimes pillows sometimes pain. Proper performance assessment must weigh heavily on time in the job.
What wannabes often can't see is that they cannot even see what to do about the problem. WHAT WHERE WHEN They not only will take too long, but on their own they never get there.
If by OUR GREAT GOOD FORTUNE they admit they don't new know what to do about the problem, those of us who have learnt exactly HOW to care, have a chance to survive, "Move out of the way, you are taking too long", Real carers are efficient machines, but it doesn't take much to wear them out . Even a trainee needs someone to correct him, Proper performance assessment must weigh heavily on time in the job.This can be rare in some sectors. Look for that and high loss rate.
If the incumbents act too quickly or without a view to effective long term reform, the star players that The Trump collective want in the system will soon be gone. ; they may well be gone anyway.
A good player 's team might already exist somewhere - go find it . Those who always run meetings, contracts and data collection should always be questioned. Trust should be a test for performance - not a pile of stats .
The capables have been in hiding for years, so the good ones will take some finding and reenergizing ( because caring is still hard work, even if you know how to do it yourself.) Really short staffed happens because the real work is hard and efficiency only focus will kill incentive ..
We all need to see how we all would quit if the incompetent person is in charge , "
Find those people and nail them!
In order to reduce the natural tendency for incompetence to take charge in the public service, we need to know what we all can do to stop that. Some of the departments are big, but making them smaller and more accountable regionally and close to need areas will be pleasing and more sustainable for many. Lots more to consider.
Bloated empires and corruption - it's all happened before and it could happen again - especially with the pressure of public debt and the very high risk of death bleeding and complete failure in the caring professions.
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