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G. Era Values & Zeitgeist: Governing System.... Ethos
G. Era Values & Zeitgeist: Governing System.... Ethos
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EMAIL [email protected] F. vs. SECRECY vs. CLOSED SYSTEMS vs. BUREAUCRACY vs. OPERATING CULTURES
vs. OPENNESS vs. JUDGEMENT vs. CHALLENGES vs. CONFIDENCE vs. TURBULENCE
vs. PRAY vs. SEAT of the PANTS vs. HAVE A GO vs. TRY THIS vs. NO WAY vs. SPIN A COIN
vs. TRUST ME vs. IT WORKED FOR THEM (COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS) vs. EXPERIENCE
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E. ETHOS® AFFECTS OUR HISTORY & WAY OF LIFE
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REALLY PUBLIC SERVICE 5 DIAGRAM NOTES Friday, 11 May 2007
Copyright © Norman Strauss 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 TEL. 020 8744 9944 EMAIL [email protected]
I have tried to show in my diagrams what a normative model of any good government – a good governing system -
has to do. In the process of designing this model, five major conclusions emerged:
1) Everybody uses the same model – to progress, compromise or regress - with due alterations for national terms and the present point any nation
has reached on its historical pathway. (See major Circle headings for A. B. C. D.) So neither regime change, nor elections alone, guarantees any
particular resulting system, behaviour changes, revision of principles, review of beliefs or prevention of tyranny – as events demonstrate.
2) Ethos is the overarching concept to describe the nature of a society and the accepted (though not always acceptable) interdependent
management of its “chosen” (because unquestioned) way of life by its rulers and citizens. (See the central overlap E of all four circles A, B,
C and D; and the large segment overlaps of a, b, c and d; and the smallest segment overlaps of A1, B1, C1 and D1.)
3) Extremism or Certainty is merely the far edge of the faith and belief exhibited by gentler societies - as segment B1, the small 3 curved,
triangular-shaped overlap of circles A, B and C - directly above the central 4-sided shape E - shows. This is where conflict and hatred occurs.
4) A constitutionally neutral service must contribute to the integrity of the whole governing system and work on every element of the model -
without exception; including challenging its validity and helping/allowing it to evolve. Otherwise the governing system cannot be in complete
alignment and exhibit coherence, the twin bases of authority and control. It will also lack the latest skills and knowledge, unless it has acquired
them outside the control of the higher civil service.
5) The links between talk, action, theory, reality, policy, philosophy, leadership, vision, politics, strategy, management, administration, execution,
competence, experience, innovation, experiment and path-breaking must be built into the study, institutions and practice of good government.
Most consultants (and civil servants are consultants to ministers) do not operate beyond the strategic bandwidth of
their clients - because they cannot ‘sell’ their services to people who don’t understand them. So they keep it
simple stupid and ignore the highest complexities of good government.
They concentrate on the efficiency of parts and ignore the effectiveness, knowledge, networking capacity, growth
and integrity of the whole system. (See BOX items 1 to 9, in E. THE MULTIPLE ETHOS IMPACTS… )
But good government must be evolutionary; it must either foresee, or respond quickly to, major imperatives for
change in the national and global environment; or in the era values and zeitgeist. (See H & G in the left hand
column of boxes leading into the central box Governing system. Please note the arrow flowing from E to the
second diagram, the contents of E1, E2 and E3 – effectively Past, Present and Future - and also the arrows F,
feeding back from I (“…is this good government? Does it feel good?”) the box at the bottom of the second
diagram E. THE MULTIPLE ETHOS IMPACTS… into diagram 1 at the top G and bottom H left hand boxes.)
normativegov62, 11052007
8 December 2021