Dubito – Making good more doable
This year, I will be sharing snippets of my vision on how to ‘make good more doable’ on a weekly basis. Below, you can find the latest and most fundamental posts, and on this page, you can find a chronological overview of all published posts so far.
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Moral diversity
Different actors in different perspectives will not see good the same way and there is a risk of moral arrogance. It would be too simple to look at the three perspectives as one-dimensional perspectives on what is right or wrong. Obviously not all people think the same, share the same values and find the same…
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Stakeholder ecosystem
Good is part a system of different stakeholders so it is important to recognise interdependencies between different perspectives on good. In my attempt to make good more doable, it would be tempting to look at good in the comforting isolation of one frame and one perspective at a time. However, this will most likely not…
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Good in context
In order to recognise good in its context, we need to distinguish three perspectives on good. Now that we know that frames influence how we perceive and communicate about reality (see post series “Three frames“) it might be a good idea to look at how strongly these frames are represented on different levels of abstraction.…
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Different frames, different natures
Each frame has a distinctly different nature, each with its own benefits and handicaps. Though the different frames compete with each other for attention (see post “The fight of the frames“), they also supplement each other. The different nature of each frame helps us to look at things in different ways, each valuable in their…
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The fight of the frames
The comply, success and moral frame are always competing so we should strive to keep them in balance. Please read the previous post about the three frames before you read this one. Depending on the situation, often one or two of the frames are dominant, and another is underrepresented or even out of the equation.…
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Three frames
Different ‘frames’ influence how we look at what we do and what we think is good. Please read the previous post about Rosetta’s scripts before you read this one. To understand how the three scripts are either stimulated or downplayed in the setting of an organisation, and how they might influence perception of employees, it…
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Rosetta: Three ways of looking at good
There are three ways of looking at ‘good’. It’s important to recognise which is dominant and which might need activation. In the year 1799, the army of Napoleon invades Egypt from the Mediterranean. How it happened exactly is not clear, but at some point, they stumbled upon an interesting looking stone. It turned out that…
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Rules are default
Rules are flawed, but still our default approach. In most societies, the default way to talk about what is right or wrong is through rules and regulations. We have tremendously detailed descriptions about what we think is allowed or not, written down in countless volumes of regulations. While this often proves to be very valuable…
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Exercise: Make your own ‘good-cloud’
Step 1: Start by making a good-cloud Using a blank sheet of paper, just randomly write down words describing what is worth striving for in work and life in general, much like in the figure of the post ‘Good is a fuzzy concept‘. They don’t have to specifically relate to your preferences, but should reflect…
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Good is a fuzzy concept
Good can be seen in different ways and is therefore hard to recognise or discuss. This post is part of an introduction to the concept of Rosetta. One reason why discussion about what is right or wrong doesn’t always have the effect it deserves is that it is so hard to agree on what good…