Very illuminating Peter and love the method - may well try it out myself. Out of interest, if you had run this exercise for Blair when in no 10 how do you think he would have ranked the 9 do you think?
Can you imagine any serious leader being unable to decide on their priorities? Or being unable to understand the relationship between them and the requisite trade-offs? I guess it's useful to appreciate that climate change is high up the priority list but this article does confirm other recent pieces about KS (namely that he appears to believe that politics can be run on auto-pilot and that policy initiatives essentially announce themselves).
I LIKE THIS METHOD; A MUCH CLEARER METHOD THAN THE STRAIGHT RANKING OF PRIORITIES, USED NOT ONLY IN EDUCATION BUT ALSO IN THERAPY.
TWO THOUGHTS:
1. THE FASCINATION WITH 'HOME OWNERSHIP' - WHICH FUELS BANK PROFITS AND GIVE GOVT YET ANOTHER WAY TO TAX US - RATHER THAN 'SAFE HOUSING' - WHICH IS WHAT THE MOST DISADVANTAGED REALLY WANT; THIS IS THE BASIS OF THE SOCIAL HOUSING ARGUMENT
2. THE FACT THAT SKS COULD BE SO SIDETRACKED BY A TECHNICAL MISHAP THAT HE COULDN'T CONCENTRATE ON A SUBSEQUENT AND MORE IMPORTANT ISSUE
Very illuminating Peter and love the method - may well try it out myself. Out of interest, if you had run this exercise for Blair when in no 10 how do you think he would have ranked the 9 do you think?
Can you imagine any serious leader being unable to decide on their priorities? Or being unable to understand the relationship between them and the requisite trade-offs? I guess it's useful to appreciate that climate change is high up the priority list but this article does confirm other recent pieces about KS (namely that he appears to believe that politics can be run on auto-pilot and that policy initiatives essentially announce themselves).
This is such an interesting narration, not least because the final top priority that everyone agreed on within 15 minutes...ended up being scrapped.
Fascinating insight - thanks so much.
I’ve long suspected this government’s fundamental flaw is its unwillingness to do the hard business of deciding on priorities (which, in a shameless plug, I wrote about here: https://tmbtp.substack.com/p/optimism-revisited?r=2i6s4&utm_medium=ios)
I LIKE THIS METHOD; A MUCH CLEARER METHOD THAN THE STRAIGHT RANKING OF PRIORITIES, USED NOT ONLY IN EDUCATION BUT ALSO IN THERAPY.
TWO THOUGHTS:
1. THE FASCINATION WITH 'HOME OWNERSHIP' - WHICH FUELS BANK PROFITS AND GIVE GOVT YET ANOTHER WAY TO TAX US - RATHER THAN 'SAFE HOUSING' - WHICH IS WHAT THE MOST DISADVANTAGED REALLY WANT; THIS IS THE BASIS OF THE SOCIAL HOUSING ARGUMENT
2. THE FACT THAT SKS COULD BE SO SIDETRACKED BY A TECHNICAL MISHAP THAT HE COULDN'T CONCENTRATE ON A SUBSEQUENT AND MORE IMPORTANT ISSUE
THANKS.