Governance is everybody's business.

Government is perceived by most of us as a big dinosaur that is too big to maneuver, too expensive to feed and to amorphous to understand and get our arms around.

Most of us feel competent enough that we don't need to be watched or evaluated. As adults, we think we can govern ourselves. "Thank you. Stay out of our way."
At times, we feel belittled and dwarfed by constant supervision, and mountains of rules. We do know plenty of people that ought to do a better job; and if the boss did his job, well, then, things would go so much better. But us, we, we are o.k if left alone. Only when there is a food contamination scare, or a strike from the teachers' unions, or a hurricane knocking down power, we feel that someone ought to be supervising more and protecting us more.

Ethnic and cultural differences may affect how we perceive our bosses, how we interact with them, how we carry on with our responsibilities. Add religious beliefs to the mix, or beliefs about classes of people, and the task of governing gets complex.


In the western world ,we live under democratic governments, where people have a right to be represented regardless of their economic or social class, and where laws govern our interactions. Hierarchies and communication links will insure that every one on the assembly line gets a voice. There are structures and laws to safeguard the health, welfare and civic rights of individuals.


Everything becomes null and void if people perceive their interests are not being met. Selfish motives will trump every other altruistic motive. Cheating, whining, stealing. all might occur even before the individual realizes why he's so angry. He may even form groups of like souls, and together work to disparage and undermine the very institution that feeds them and their families.


Right now, around the world, there are many people who feel like that. Unless we learn what makes good governance and work at maintaining and balancing interests, we will be tossing around in a small vessel, though the big vessel is moored right besides us.

My point is we need good governance. We need to work at improving its functions, streamline its tasks, and identifying continuous quality improvement.

Good governance begins with a desire to improve its functions on a continuous basis. Good governance is at the heart of Democracies.

Playing Along.

Thanks M. from Sixtyup.blogspot.com for going along with the tag game. That's today's rambling thought: how we end up playing in the big playground called life.

I think most of our early decisions in life were to please somebody, our parents, our friends, our special someone. We were loved and appreciated when we were pleasant, cooperative. Our teachers' comments on the report card, plays well with others, were appreciated. As parents, we were happy when our little ones had friends, were invited to play and party, were popular, didn't give any trouble.
We are socialized to get along with others.

Most people I have fired were not incompetent, they were hard to get along; they broke rules they didn't like, and were difficult in groups. The organizational goals could not be met by these people. They will continue to have trouble because they look at getting along as a sissy game.


Well, it isn't a sissy game. It is a very important civil game, one that allows us all to cleverly reap many benefits. By cooperating, we build relationships and alliances that will ultimately give us all what we need. In this case, a bigger audience. Six times six, with one post, one stroke.

Let's play.