Frank ( All saints DOCTOR) is just oh so good. The epitamy of the current struggle of the BUSY caring individual VS corporation and the individaul VS those who use power and process so wel weighted in their favour (Deanna). Yes the efficient deanna is actually helped along by an overly willing business like BUT less busy and fat lined ( eg call meetings whenever they like) process empire builders.
The balance is wrong and wrong because our leaders think business knows best .
The reality is that business knows best how to look after itself - creating their own cosy process building empires at the expense of people who actualy do the work . and true carers can go jump cause they multibag .Now there is a skill you can't fit into those silly myopic performance assessmnent methods these powerbrokers use to whitewash the sepulchres.
Most importantly for those who want to ACTUALLY avoid the neccesary bureaucarcy from becoming its its own worst enemy ( are you really listening - MS PIKE )IS the idea that you must INCREASE the ability of professionals to make decsion --the wider community ( not you !)agrees that they Are BEST to do the job -- and not polys or those who use power and process to win ---politically (Are you listening mr hulls on development along the coast or just hoping the problem will go away . Why would your children train to be planners? why would the gretaer geelong council even bother to do do the big picture study when the govt will predicatbly find the big picture decision too hard and go lokin in the sand for answers professionals can and should make . stalemate or stupidmate?
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Whatever happened to Ian Campbell,the parrot producing minister , you say on cuttingedge conservation . He like so many environmental ministers before him wants to believe that you can get credit for pinning the tail on the donkey with a blindfold on .
The greatest evil is being done in the name of environment . The safety paralient needs, it is eroding, by making a joke out the very things that scientifically and practically detremine our childrens future .
Why aren't the people alarmed ? , we don't blog . ?
Scientists are being treated like a joke.We learn to check our facts . Polys need to check whether what they hear is mere echo ! After all every really important env decision will ofetn require more DISCUSSION than determination, before IT ACTUALLY WORKS CHANGE . As cutting edg carers know ,ideas are fine but implemenation is the big issue and is for real experts to sort out .
If you want your kids to end up in a dead end career, let them train in one of the most complex areas ever and then let them try to influnce the wilful bunch of environemntal experts who get the very TOP jobs in that portfolio.I know i have ben there!
The greatest evil is being done in the name of environment . The safety paralient needs, it is eroding, by making a joke out the very things that scientifically and practically detremine our childrens future .
Why aren't the people alarmed ? , we don't blog . ?
Scientists are being treated like a joke.We learn to check our facts . Polys need to check whether what they hear is mere echo ! After all every really important env decision will ofetn require more DISCUSSION than determination, before IT ACTUALLY WORKS CHANGE . As cutting edg carers know ,ideas are fine but implemenation is the big issue and is for real experts to sort out .
If you want your kids to end up in a dead end career, let them train in one of the most complex areas ever and then let them try to influnce the wilful bunch of environemntal experts who get the very TOP jobs in that portfolio.I know i have ben there!
Thursday, January 19, 2006
DEPRESSION, DENIAL And NANNY MCPHEE -it isn't all bad - provided our leaders stop approaching things the way they have been.(WA premier resigns)
Premiers Kennett and Gallop’s awareness of a very common risk with sword bearers is a beacon of hope for the country. That they care is not in question, because it seems that only those who care get the disease. How they care and how they fail, though, can be the reason for the disease. The fast new road most traveled by many industry knows best leaders is often a big hitting , big careless breaking cul de sac and the quicker they get out of it, the quicker they will win back the confidence of the people and government .
Depression can be nature's way of reminding us we have been heading up the creek without a paddle, up a blind alley with no way out .
Recognize the sign on the way in .The direction is fine, but distractions occur . Our leaders need to find that sign -both major parties are on the same road, singing the same silly tune that leads to depression. Cul de sac ideas like ;that efficiency leads like a beacon to effectiveness ; That industry knows best ;That what the people want is what they need.
Many leaders are in denial about whether they believe in goverenmnet at all, and that depresses those of us in the system, who do . They think they can rid the world of “ Big Nanny” . But without Nanny there is no way to deal with public governance’s biggest problem - its actual ability to be proactive in the long term interest of ' the family' , not the petty , noisy interests, or even other important noises in the household . With all the noise, coming from all directions, leaders need to know who to listen to and whose watching more carefully to what's really happening. Listen to everyone, but listen more to the voice of experience and observation of those who can stand back from the household – walking in and out from time to time . Those with the skills of observation beyond the clean cut four walls of one industry, one household, to the big picture from outside. Government is necessary, but big government can seem just like a big nuisance. Careless jabbing and jousting, like infighting, will not, however, cut it where it counts.
The big nanny will not go away. Getting the right kind of nanny is the issue, not this otherworldly nonsense about getting rid of her and the sustainable perspective she alone can bring to the situation . We need nanny’s who know , from being outside , where to cut where it counts !
Depression NOW is very common in the public service because many leadership groups have lost sight of how to be effective, but don't want to admit it. If affects both parties (Ask Mark Latham ), and that’s the key - both parties have got some serious blind spot about how to make government more efficient. Depression gets to the sword carrier after the last deaths don't make the needed difference ( see Lawrence of Arabia ) just as fickleness is the feature experienced at the battleground level by the troops when enthusiasm fails to sustain what experience used to obtain.
George Santayana knew this issue well and its relationship to the fanaticism and fickleness we see all around us. Getting to goals is like in winning in Tennis. Depends largely on how much practice and experience you have and how much you know and respect the limits of the territory -- not a matter of changing direction all the time, rather knowing what long term interest is. its risk boundaries and sticking at winning within them . .
The way out of this unnecessary nonsense involves working with the enemy in practical and sustainable ways; Getting involved at the ground level. Respect those who train and put the hard yards in and resist the flighty quick fixers and change everything often mangers now common in the court. Leaders of both parties, for example, have convinced themselves that blind competition and change is progress policies are the very swords that will cut kindly and cleanly through bureaucracies belligerence; something that is simply part of their nature. Too many leaders deny the demons they must work with and like the innocent Don Quixote, think a mere sword will kill them . Such leaders are not realistic and are heading for depression.
Much good mental health will be restored across Australia when our Don Quixote’s accept reality rather than deny it. You don't rid the world of bureaucratic belligerence - you work with it. You don’t listen just to one voice, but seek out the small one.
Churchill’s famous quote about democracies choices points to clearly to the acceptance of the reality of inefficiency in them. Now there's a realist and an effective leader. If we all model yourselves on him, much of our current depression will disappear.
Like NANNY MCPHEE, what’s looks all bad at first , may well look a lot better when you accept the critical need for her experience and wisdom. The longer view of those well educated and experienced hands on housekeeping servants who can see through the noise ; not denying any members voice or , those with a legitimately short term view, but more able to see how we can keep the diverse economia we call home together .
Premiers Kennett and Gallop’s awareness of a very common risk with sword bearers is a beacon of hope for the country. That they care is not in question, because it seems that only those who care get the disease. How they care and how they fail, though, can be the reason for the disease. The fast new road most traveled by many industry knows best leaders is often a big hitting , big careless breaking cul de sac and the quicker they get out of it, the quicker they will win back the confidence of the people and government .
Depression can be nature's way of reminding us we have been heading up the creek without a paddle, up a blind alley with no way out .
Recognize the sign on the way in .The direction is fine, but distractions occur . Our leaders need to find that sign -both major parties are on the same road, singing the same silly tune that leads to depression. Cul de sac ideas like ;that efficiency leads like a beacon to effectiveness ; That industry knows best ;That what the people want is what they need.
Many leaders are in denial about whether they believe in goverenmnet at all, and that depresses those of us in the system, who do . They think they can rid the world of “ Big Nanny” . But without Nanny there is no way to deal with public governance’s biggest problem - its actual ability to be proactive in the long term interest of ' the family' , not the petty , noisy interests, or even other important noises in the household . With all the noise, coming from all directions, leaders need to know who to listen to and whose watching more carefully to what's really happening. Listen to everyone, but listen more to the voice of experience and observation of those who can stand back from the household – walking in and out from time to time . Those with the skills of observation beyond the clean cut four walls of one industry, one household, to the big picture from outside. Government is necessary, but big government can seem just like a big nuisance. Careless jabbing and jousting, like infighting, will not, however, cut it where it counts.
The big nanny will not go away. Getting the right kind of nanny is the issue, not this otherworldly nonsense about getting rid of her and the sustainable perspective she alone can bring to the situation . We need nanny’s who know , from being outside , where to cut where it counts !
Depression NOW is very common in the public service because many leadership groups have lost sight of how to be effective, but don't want to admit it. If affects both parties (Ask Mark Latham ), and that’s the key - both parties have got some serious blind spot about how to make government more efficient. Depression gets to the sword carrier after the last deaths don't make the needed difference ( see Lawrence of Arabia ) just as fickleness is the feature experienced at the battleground level by the troops when enthusiasm fails to sustain what experience used to obtain.
George Santayana knew this issue well and its relationship to the fanaticism and fickleness we see all around us. Getting to goals is like in winning in Tennis. Depends largely on how much practice and experience you have and how much you know and respect the limits of the territory -- not a matter of changing direction all the time, rather knowing what long term interest is. its risk boundaries and sticking at winning within them . .
The way out of this unnecessary nonsense involves working with the enemy in practical and sustainable ways; Getting involved at the ground level. Respect those who train and put the hard yards in and resist the flighty quick fixers and change everything often mangers now common in the court. Leaders of both parties, for example, have convinced themselves that blind competition and change is progress policies are the very swords that will cut kindly and cleanly through bureaucracies belligerence; something that is simply part of their nature. Too many leaders deny the demons they must work with and like the innocent Don Quixote, think a mere sword will kill them . Such leaders are not realistic and are heading for depression.
Much good mental health will be restored across Australia when our Don Quixote’s accept reality rather than deny it. You don't rid the world of bureaucratic belligerence - you work with it. You don’t listen just to one voice, but seek out the small one.
Churchill’s famous quote about democracies choices points to clearly to the acceptance of the reality of inefficiency in them. Now there's a realist and an effective leader. If we all model yourselves on him, much of our current depression will disappear.
Like NANNY MCPHEE, what’s looks all bad at first , may well look a lot better when you accept the critical need for her experience and wisdom. The longer view of those well educated and experienced hands on housekeeping servants who can see through the noise ; not denying any members voice or , those with a legitimately short term view, but more able to see how we can keep the diverse economia we call home together .
Tuesday, August 09, 2005
Unfortunately for people in our country who are not being listened to ( quinsy) , we as a society like to still pretend "we are listening" - the disease is often denial and ours more than theirs.
Why do we so desperately want to show we care? It is a symptom of what the psychologist Oliver James has dubbed our "low serotonin" society. Despite being healthier, richer and better-off than in living memory, we in the West are more depressed than ever. Institutions such as the church, marriage and the family have withered in the postwar era. Raised in fragmented family units, more of us live by ourselves. Ostentatious caring permits the lonely nation to forge new social bonds. As James concludes: "A common impulse behind wanting to give love unconditionally to non-intimates is the desire to receive it."
dogood rather than exhaust yourself?
From a review of Patrick West's book CIS publication
Why do we so desperately want to show we care? It is a symptom of what the psychologist Oliver James has dubbed our "low serotonin" society. Despite being healthier, richer and better-off than in living memory, we in the West are more depressed than ever. Institutions such as the church, marriage and the family have withered in the postwar era. Raised in fragmented family units, more of us live by ourselves. Ostentatious caring permits the lonely nation to forge new social bonds. As James concludes: "A common impulse behind wanting to give love unconditionally to non-intimates is the desire to receive it."
dogood rather than exhaust yourself?
From a review of Patrick West's book CIS publication
Wednesday, June 22, 2005
People suicide when they feel no one is listening - those who are close to them know the cities indifference is not close enough to the truth to care.
What the party politicians are doing to Australia's farming families is an ABSOLUTE DISGRACE... what the party politicians are doing to the Emerald citrus growing farming families is a NATIONAL DISGRACE!
Please show that you care...
Respectfully
Selwyn
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Selwyn Johnston
What the party politicians are doing to Australia's farming families is an ABSOLUTE DISGRACE... what the party politicians are doing to the Emerald citrus growing farming families is a NATIONAL DISGRACE!
Please show that you care...
Respectfully
Selwyn
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Selwyn Johnston
Friday, June 17, 2005
It would be a missed point of political juggularity if all the noise about Peter Andrews ( Australain story ABCTV this week) got no further than a slanging match about " who knows best " .
I am not going to spell it out here except to say that a common phobia ( often held in denial by persons affected ) is rife and environmental health care is a complete cot case in traditional health care terms (This condition is well known to practicioners of any competence.)
I am not going to spell it out here except to say that a common phobia ( often held in denial by persons affected ) is rife and environmental health care is a complete cot case in traditional health care terms (This condition is well known to practicioners of any competence.)
Monday, May 30, 2005
Who really cares ? Not the quick fixers and those cultivating the emergency service mentality
The "Just in time" models of industry DO NOT substitute well for the preventative focus of big picture governance.
Who will be the first parliamentarian to break ranks from the wonderworking power of "industy knows best" chants > Find one !
The "Just in time" models of industry DO NOT substitute well for the preventative focus of big picture governance.
Who will be the first parliamentarian to break ranks from the wonderworking power of "industy knows best" chants > Find one !
Tuesday, April 12, 2005
Spreading Jam on Wounds
While I welcome the focus on the pointy end, the conservatives will still give the dollar to the wrong accountability groups simply because they prefer simplicity. They like to focus on the sweets rather than the substance . Our leaders still get lulled into a sense of comfort by the mere mention of the word "enterprise" unaware of the high risk of isolation rather than integration- The left hand not knowesth what the right handeth doeth .The nurse and the CEO talk different languages. One offers jam, the other talks about uneccesary jagged edges, and how to avoid them .
Government is not business and true accountability ( Minister to Department) is still the key to sore prevention,stable and sustainable and more satisfying staffing .
All the other expensive rubbish their revived quango theology has created in the last couple of decsdes will keep coming back to bite them big time- the waste is the current governments creation ---not neccesarily the goodwill and volunteer groups,groups who one presumes still get little money for propaganda purposes.
How do those of you in health care feel about quangos ,and the plethora of simple bookeeper and accountancy priests that still rule with dubious honor ? se also govtisnotbusiness
"I've got no doubt that right across the country we're spending far too much on bureaucracy and administration and we need to make sure more of it gets to the pointy end," hON IAN CAMPBELL said.
While I welcome the focus on the pointy end, the conservatives will still give the dollar to the wrong accountability groups simply because they prefer simplicity. They like to focus on the sweets rather than the substance . Our leaders still get lulled into a sense of comfort by the mere mention of the word "enterprise" unaware of the high risk of isolation rather than integration- The left hand not knowesth what the right handeth doeth .The nurse and the CEO talk different languages. One offers jam, the other talks about uneccesary jagged edges, and how to avoid them .
Government is not business and true accountability ( Minister to Department) is still the key to sore prevention,stable and sustainable and more satisfying staffing .
All the other expensive rubbish their revived quango theology has created in the last couple of decsdes will keep coming back to bite them big time- the waste is the current governments creation ---not neccesarily the goodwill and volunteer groups,groups who one presumes still get little money for propaganda purposes.
How do those of you in health care feel about quangos ,and the plethora of simple bookeeper and accountancy priests that still rule with dubious honor ? se also govtisnotbusiness
"I've got no doubt that right across the country we're spending far too much on bureaucracy and administration and we need to make sure more of it gets to the pointy end," hON IAN CAMPBELL said.
Friday, June 04, 2004
Cheap labor
I notice noone is talking about landcare and its future ! Is it not just another quick fix skilled resource exploited for its goodwill rather its proper place and payment . Resist government exploitation and defend your right to be paid to make the tough choices and negiotiate good outcomes - and not be undermined by quackery on the environment.
I notice noone is talking about landcare and its future ! Is it not just another quick fix skilled resource exploited for its goodwill rather its proper place and payment . Resist government exploitation and defend your right to be paid to make the tough choices and negiotiate good outcomes - and not be undermined by quackery on the environment.
Monday, May 24, 2004
We'll research it more said the health minister. Talk about missing the point Care isn't always rocket science and better care won't come out of " yet another investigation " but by abandoning some treasured treasury vices. http:/yesminister.blogspot.com .
I was disturbed to hear the ABC 774 participants today tending to limit the discussion about the origins of violence to external sources. Blame the TV . Blame the computer games . Blame our genes , blame someone and it will all go away ? Sure! Put the subject in the too hard basket - . Projection by ministers ...and ...you name it there is a bit of denial about?
Notably life matters mentor and mental health discussion on the same day remind us that 1hr a week well spent listening is better value for cutting edgecarethan most of the high input nannyism our communities get from the nine to fivers .http://cuttingedgecare.blogspot.com
I was disturbed to hear the ABC 774 participants today tending to limit the discussion about the origins of violence to external sources. Blame the TV . Blame the computer games . Blame our genes , blame someone and it will all go away ? Sure! Put the subject in the too hard basket - . Projection by ministers ...and ...you name it there is a bit of denial about?
Notably life matters mentor and mental health discussion on the same day remind us that 1hr a week well spent listening is better value for cutting edgecarethan most of the high input nannyism our communities get from the nine to fivers .http://cuttingedgecare.blogspot.com
Monday, May 03, 2004
Apparently there is a problem with providing health care in the bush . Rural issues don't seem to fit the market model . Sorry we will get back to you when our models work.
Don't put up any longer with competition policy and its limitations in helath care areas.Get rid of half the paper. Join the revolution and bring back responsibility. enlist at http:/users.gsat.net.au/tuf/enlist.htm try email on edge
Don't put up any longer with competition policy and its limitations in helath care areas.Get rid of half the paper. Join the revolution and bring back responsibility. enlist at http:/users.gsat.net.au/tuf/enlist.htm try email on edge
Friday, March 19, 2004
Lets have a good meddle with land use issues !
There will be no effective uproar by those who act as custodians for our resources - after all they
are irrelevant -at least politically ( http://fairgomate.blogspot.com)
Polys have finally found something that doesn't matter but on which they can pontificate .I say doesn't matter because all the talk of
cuttingedgeconservation( blogspot of that name ) "professionals" are just NOT important. After all they are not organised like medicos .
doesn't matter if the peasants and the professionals get cut by all the careless talk - they don't
matter politically-- they are just wingeing farmers and their suspect friends
Between Bob Brown and Mark
Latham they know what to do ( in tas yesterday) - close down use of the land - its that simple!
Problems with surgery you say? - lets have none of it !
Dead easy mate
There will be no effective uproar by those who act as custodians for our resources - after all they
are irrelevant -at least politically ( http://fairgomate.blogspot.com)
Polys have finally found something that doesn't matter but on which they can pontificate .I say doesn't matter because all the talk of
cuttingedgeconservation( blogspot of that name ) "professionals" are just NOT important. After all they are not organised like medicos .
doesn't matter if the peasants and the professionals get cut by all the careless talk - they don't
matter politically-- they are just wingeing farmers and their suspect friends
Between Bob Brown and Mark
Latham they know what to do ( in tas yesterday) - close down use of the land - its that simple!
Problems with surgery you say? - lets have none of it !
Dead easy mate
Tuesday, March 09, 2004
Grow CPR grow Great to see Competition Policy Resistance association form this week in NSW -hope it will be the start of something much bigger . shake the comfortable out of their cosy complacency and conformity over competition policy and their undiscerning love of all kinds of cancerous instead of sustainable growths . "The CPR holds real concerns in a number of areas – in part
-Diminished professional services in rural areas;
-An undermining of professional accountability;
-A deterioration in customer service and duty of care, including erosion of standards of responsible service of alcohol;
.
-Diminished professional services in rural areas;
-An undermining of professional accountability;
-A deterioration in customer service and duty of care, including erosion of standards of responsible service of alcohol;
.
Thursday, December 18, 2003
Another great series MDA . Enjoyed Happys dogged wisdom profile ( The realist who cares ) Especially his line to the young fresh faced lad “ why don’t they understand about immunization – why don’t we go to the papers and give it to them straight about the risk ” circ 17dec
A ---They don’t want to be reasonable mate !”. Not the game there and …….
Not the game here either ……Out here in the bush either where risks and realities of interference are real too!.
The libs are out of touch and the interfererers are right to ask for big picture rather than more of the petty politics of twin ledger accountancy . Sound health care is not driven from behind by reactive paradigm of purchaser and provider - economic models of mismanagement and misapprehension more like it . Abbott--you need just one lateral thinker in Canberra .You have got too many yes men!
Related rural matter
Can we please get some attention from ABC journalists to dig deeper into all the green quackery and make the same challenge on behalf of competent people in the bush who remain totally unrepresented .
After all there is no MDA for competent risk assessing surgeons of the environment who get cut down daily by the lumbering logomachy of the unencumbered and growing legal ( and often compliant media) and legislative machinery designed to “help” .
Help whom ? see
A ---They don’t want to be reasonable mate !”. Not the game there and …….
Not the game here either ……Out here in the bush either where risks and realities of interference are real too!.
The libs are out of touch and the interfererers are right to ask for big picture rather than more of the petty politics of twin ledger accountancy . Sound health care is not driven from behind by reactive paradigm of purchaser and provider - economic models of mismanagement and misapprehension more like it . Abbott--you need just one lateral thinker in Canberra .You have got too many yes men!
Related rural matter
Can we please get some attention from ABC journalists to dig deeper into all the green quackery and make the same challenge on behalf of competent people in the bush who remain totally unrepresented .
After all there is no MDA for competent risk assessing surgeons of the environment who get cut down daily by the lumbering logomachy of the unencumbered and growing legal ( and often compliant media) and legislative machinery designed to “help” .
Help whom ? see
Monday, September 29, 2003
Best Intention is not enough . It not only cuts- its wounds
don't always heal and we just get waste !
Did you know that Don Quixote has found a friend?Together they form a formidable party . Quick draw McGraw and his many media friends are driving sound professional carers mad with their fast horse fanaticsm. The greatest evil can be done in the name of the best intention (B Shaw). Even Attenborough is concerned that our caring is out of balance with the real care balance issues ( Enough rope ABCTV 22nd september)
Caring in the real world where predation exists is no simple matter . So why care at all Is our idealism wrong ?
If guilt is driving us to act quickly too,…. that too is wrong?
Lets be practical and effective about this, because true caring is both of the former. Not one of us can care responsibly for more than a few things close to us . The effective tradition of caring in our culture ( one that maximizing choice and involvement , is one that takes the reality of suffering seriously , and seeks to redeem it by being responsible for the few things in our control. Read The Jericho road story by the real radical in our history.
don't always heal and we just get waste !
Did you know that Don Quixote has found a friend?Together they form a formidable party . Quick draw McGraw and his many media friends are driving sound professional carers mad with their fast horse fanaticsm. The greatest evil can be done in the name of the best intention (B Shaw). Even Attenborough is concerned that our caring is out of balance with the real care balance issues ( Enough rope ABCTV 22nd september)
Caring in the real world where predation exists is no simple matter . So why care at all Is our idealism wrong ?
If guilt is driving us to act quickly too,…. that too is wrong?
Lets be practical and effective about this, because true caring is both of the former. Not one of us can care responsibly for more than a few things close to us . The effective tradition of caring in our culture ( one that maximizing choice and involvement , is one that takes the reality of suffering seriously , and seeks to redeem it by being responsible for the few things in our control. Read The Jericho road story by the real radical in our history.
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