Cruelty and Good

In the challenge of developing this model I have had to resist the temptation to define ‘goodness’ in terms of specific behaviors or values.  But that said, the realities of the world around us require I deal with those actions that cannot be considered good in the context of a “Good Decision”.   Actions motivated by…

These past few weeks have showcased the pathetic and the tragic. A young man with a head full of childish fantasies carries a powerful lethal gun over state lines to a demonstration/riot with the idea that he would protect the property owners in the city. The reality of the crowd’s energy pushes out the Marvel…

The structure of The Good Decision relies heavily on an assumoption of the goodness of human beings, but that assumption alone can be dangerously naive. For the purposes of The Good Decision (TGD) process I am  trying to address that risk in the scope of considerations for the diversity of ‘good’ and would appreciate your…

Everyday I go through the New York Times searching for decision points in American public policy and culture. The columnist David Brooks interests me in that he feels no compulsion to feel more or less conservative than he actually is at any given period of our tumultuous history.  He thinks.  His latest column entitled “Scorn and…

I could as well have hyphenated Sense of Good, but rather I have used the three words in the first Pause as a proper noun to shift the reader’s mind a bit. A friend and reader of this model sent me the following challenge by quoting a man I have always admired. Here is a…

Why The Good Decision in this time? Initially this decision model was built for human service professionals who had to make decisions about benefits and eligibility. Later I developed versions for churches and finally a national insurance/financial services organization. In every level of development I held to my own rule that the language and structure…

I am reaching the point where I would call this the first finished draft. Though I have worked and trained The Good Decision in a variety of workshop settings, putting it out there for a general audience has required significant adaptation and it is a first draft because I feel it is far from its…

In the course of 35 years being privileged to play minor role in the Disability Movement and then being a consultant to organizations trying to match their work to their mission language I became aware we as individuals and as individuals in organization were defined at some level by the decisions we make. Both private…