Values, Ethics and Inspiration

True integration will be achieved by true neighbors who are willingly obedient to unenforceable obligations.”   Martin Luther King

Website Ethic and Values

Nature models the tipping points but we can manage them through good decisions

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The Good Decision (TGD) Workshop

TGD began as a workshop for private non-profits, business and public service agencies. I am now offering this website as a free public service. The Good Decision workshop is an excellent organizational retreat format particularly for service organizations and public agencies. For financially hard pressed service agencies I may be able to offer this workshop for expenses only. For more information on the workshop contact me at robertjahner@thegooddecision.org. I am based out of the Denver Colorado area.

Bias Disclaimer:

The Good Decision Project Values

1.  Service:   Genuine service is hard work, but unmistakable in its expression. The group, congregation, business or organization that provides genuine service thrives inspired by people’s instinctive recognition of the real thing.

2. Sense of Good:  Goodness is a complex individual human attribute that in the collective can heal this planet. Goodness is an internal cultivation that grows in constant change with the individual, community and public realm.  Good’s internal process needs words and language to breath and spread beyond the individual experience.

3. Pluralistic democracy:  The American experience at the center of it’s aspirational goodness is founded on tolerance of what you don’t understand, and  a commitment to understanding beyond your individual experience.  We as public people must learn to live with internal integrity in governance and the composition of legitimate rule of law. Finally, we need the humility to understand all virtue is in part aspirational in the democratic process

The Good Decision Ethic
The contemplation of an action or option that would harm another person or that person’s options based solely on considerations of race, color, ethnicity, religion, or gender falls outside of the realm of the Sense of Good in the context of The Good Decision (TGD). Life is full of ambiguous decisions for first responders, medical practitioners, armed service personnel, and service providers in general. There is however a difference between complex, difficult decisions and the conscious contemplation of harm. TGD is designed specifically to assist in those complex, difficult and ambiguous service decisions.

The Good Decision Tutorial can start here

To get started with ‘The Good Decision Process’ click on the link below

9 responses to “Values, Ethics and Inspiration”

  1. David Levin Avatar
    David Levin

    I love seeing classic Bob Jahner as a reference for living for us all.

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  2. Tory Avatar

    I was wondering if you ever thought of changing the page layout of your
    blog? Its very well written; I love what youve got to say.
    But maybe you could a little more in the way of
    content so people could connect with it better. Youve got an awful lot of
    text for only having one or two images. Maybe you could space
    it out better?

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  3. Ray FitzSimmons Avatar
    Ray FitzSimmons

    The statements on democracy were lacking in an area that has been bothering me a lot recently. I realize that we aren’t really a democracy but a republic. That aside I am worried about the tyranny of the minority . In the USA today it is often the minority that imposes it will and values on the majority. It is often now the minority that does not respect or compromise with the majority. Our system was created in a way that gives the minority a significant voice so as not to be overrun by the majority. It seems that the majority have been more tolerant of the minority than the minority is tolerant of the majority. There is little compromise between the two. The power structure in the USA currently favors the minority.

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    1. Robert Jahner Avatar

      I agree with you that with the shifts in demographics, state populations, the logic of the Electoral College and finally manipulation of voting districts, my overall simplistic summary misses the point you bring up. A minority has strategically been able to have majority influence. That said it will take a clear majority to hold office for an extended period of time to correct those issues and my Sense of Democracy tells me that equally strategic political work at local, state and national levels will be required to reset the balances of our system of democracy. Your comments are very well taken and I will look again at the language of the website to address to incorporate your comments.

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  4. Hermila Kunz Avatar

    This is a very good tip especially to those fresh to the blogosphere. Simple but very accurate information… Thank you for sharing this one. A must read post!

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    1. Robert Jahner Avatar
      Robert Jahner

      I do appreciate your comments. Please feel free to share the website around. I would love to see a conversation emerge at this level about how we can make decisions in todays world without escalating the conflict.

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  5. Kathy Avatar

    Hmm it appears like your site ate my first comment (it was extremely long) so I guess I’ll just
    sum it up what I had written and say, I’m thoroughly enjoying your blog.

    I as well am an aspiring blog blogger but I’m still new to the whole thing.
    Do you have any points for newbie blog writers? I’d really appreciate it.

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  6. robertjahner Avatar

    Two years and content 15 years

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