Strategic Democracy
Customized for the United States of America, from a Republic to a Strategic Republic.
by
Tamer Tamer Salameh
Tamer Tamer Salameh
Next Strategic Democracy Presentation
Customized for the United States of America.
from a Republic to a Strategic Republic.
Next Seminar will be on TBD at TBD (PST); open to all.
The presentation and discussion will be video recorded.
Link to video will be posted in X (Twitter), LinkedIn, and maybe other.
The presentation and discussion will be video recorded.
Link to video will be posted in X (Twitter), LinkedIn, and maybe other.
Welcome to Your Strategic Democracy Orientation
"Prevention is better than cure.”
Desiderius Erasmus
Strategic Democracy - Origin
This work is based on the teachings of H. Igor Ansoff (Father of Strategic Management). It is for transactioning with TURBULENCE in Society for a better FUTURE.
Our practice is multidisciplinary in the sense that it seeks an optic appropriate to the problem and not to a particular scientific discipline."
H. Igor Ansoff
Strategic Democracy Orientation - Future
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Welcome to the: complex, high-tech, global knowledge, interconnected, multi-cultural, multi-dimensional, multi-disciplinary, multi-educational, multi-generational, multi-ideological, multi-ability, multi-ethnic, and anticipated TURBULENT future business environment that impacts performance:
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TURBULENCE
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Strategic Democracy - People
1. We are different, we are unique, we are interelated, we are one. One human race.
2. Our future is too important to be left to politics and economics.
3. We have all that we need to succeed.
4. Now, shall we go there to lead and manage?
5. Why not?
2. Our future is too important to be left to politics and economics.
3. We have all that we need to succeed.
4. Now, shall we go there to lead and manage?
5. Why not?
Strategic Democracy - Benefit
The universe is not the same without you.
Unknown Author
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Resulting in Strategic Democracy (Democrats & others) + Strategic Republic (Republicans & others) = 4 Strategic Republican Democracy (we the People) |
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Thank You.
Please Note: The "Strategic Democracy" videos, text, graphics etc.. are part of my work which is entitled "Strategic Theme". This content is for illustration, review, and discussion only. Given the dynamic nature of the environment; propositions change. Considerations for relationships and domain of applicability such as order (first, second order effect, etc.), hierarchy, cause-effect, dependencies, multi-variants, trends, strength, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, and other imperatives are implicit rather than explicit or not presented. Additionally, the developed and tested methodology is not present. Therefore, practical applicability is not advised before preparation and practice.
Start Stopping the Noise
Facta Non Verba.
The Latin phrase meaning “Deeds not words." Unknown Origin
STOP the noise.
Strategic Democracy Fundamental Questions
It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.
Epictetus
Strategic Democracy, neither promotes a party nor favors any political candidate, nor is skewed towards personalities or favoritism. It focuses on actions and outcomes. It critiques (appreciation &/or criticism) interactions as necessary for knowledge and/or action alongside the current situation and/or the anticipated future. It is not neutral for it seeks effectiveness, efficiency, and equitability in results. While, respecting your ability, age, economics, education, ethnicity, gender, politics, and religion among other things.
Thrusting to bridging the gap between leaders and follower in the USA through integration and differentiation of many originators, critiques, and practitioners. With emphasis on answering the Fundamental Question:
How to lead and manage ourselves, each other and the US government, while interacting with turbulence for effective, efficient, and equitable performance.
Preparation to answer the previous question is operationalized by five questions, as follows:
Thrusting to bridging the gap between leaders and follower in the USA through integration and differentiation of many originators, critiques, and practitioners. With emphasis on answering the Fundamental Question:
How to lead and manage ourselves, each other and the US government, while interacting with turbulence for effective, efficient, and equitable performance.
Preparation to answer the previous question is operationalized by five questions, as follows:
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1. Where are we now?
2. Where do we need to go? 3. How do we get there? 4. How to lead and manage the above? 5. Why not? |
Now
go there to lead and manage. Or, do not. |
We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
Thomas Paine
This is about Leading & Managing the people's Business in USA.
This is about managing and leading the people's business in the USA only. Other countries will require customization. Nevertheless, other countries can benefit from the practice. The focus is on the executive and legislative branches of the US government, with attention to the Supreme Court for leading and managing the affairs of the citizens of the United States of America.
They are the population of this work and play a major role in society. That role if poorly lead and managed will hamper: freedom, individual liberty, representative government, rule of law under God, and future growth & development.
This is intended as a brief to inspire you to look & see, perceive & understand, decide &/or act. It contains an overview to answer the question and provide a monograph for all USA public office candidates that wish to use this approach.
They are the population of this work and play a major role in society. That role if poorly lead and managed will hamper: freedom, individual liberty, representative government, rule of law under God, and future growth & development.
This is intended as a brief to inspire you to look & see, perceive & understand, decide &/or act. It contains an overview to answer the question and provide a monograph for all USA public office candidates that wish to use this approach.
Two Things to Introduce
I- Rebooting Democracy
II- Tamer KARTS
We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With socio-political or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Almost any dictionary defines democracy as "a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives." Which is what is practiced in the USA. Specifically, the USA is a republic as a régime, thrusting towards capitalism, and employing democracy as a method.
To cut a long story short; both Strategic Democracy and Operational Democracy supplement each other and complement Democracy through the interactions between knowledge, action(s) and result(s) over time in society (Tamer KARTS). Its purpose is to ensure the survival, profitability, growth, and development of the USA at scale. The thrust is to improve existing practice and create exceptional futures.
It is a paradigm for deliberate and/or emergent leadership and management of ourselves, each other, and institutions over time in society. It is a multidisciplinary paradigm for complementing democracy with fundamentals from leadership and management; focusing on strategic management and all knowledge rather than politics and economics.
To cut a long story short; both Strategic Democracy and Operational Democracy supplement each other and complement Democracy through the interactions between knowledge, action(s) and result(s) over time in society (Tamer KARTS). Its purpose is to ensure the survival, profitability, growth, and development of the USA at scale. The thrust is to improve existing practice and create exceptional futures.
It is a paradigm for deliberate and/or emergent leadership and management of ourselves, each other, and institutions over time in society. It is a multidisciplinary paradigm for complementing democracy with fundamentals from leadership and management; focusing on strategic management and all knowledge rather than politics and economics.
Please Note: this work is about the USA only. Other countries will require customization.
Reboot Democracy and apply Tamer KARTS
WHY?
(Borrowed Wisdom)
What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind. William Shakespeare From the “Julius Caesar” play.
1. Gaps between leaders and followers.
Democracy is the pit of mediocrity! 1993 Discussion with H. Igor Ansoff (Father of Strategic Management)
2. Gaps between theory (knowledge) and practice (actual).
The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.
Noam Chomsky
3. Gaps between what is done and what could/should be done.
Reboot Democracy and apply Tamer KARTS
To close the GAPS
How?
The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting. The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way."
Marcus Aurelius in his Meditations, Book 5.20.
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I- Reboot Democracy
(15 second Video) Reboot Democracy So, let us reboot Democracy by integrating and/or differentiating the strategic and operational modes, as follows:
1. Operational democracy tackles stable environments that contain issues, events, problems etc... Which are repetitive and experienced before; supplemented with a high state of knowledge and adequate time to respond. Such as discrimination (ability, gender, color, religion, age, income and other), drug addiction, computer privacy, unemployment, and hunger. It is a known problem and solutions either exist or could be developed. 2. Strategic democracy addresses turbulent environments that contain issues, events, problems etc... Which are novel surprises not experienced before; supplemented with low state of knowledge and time constraints. For instance, COVID19, Oil crisis and stock market collapse. It is either an unknown problem or partially known and solutions are either partial or do not exist; development of solutions is required. 3. Both modes are impactful and urgent whereas, the former is addressed sequentially and latter concurrently. Sometimes they overlap which requires balancing. |
II- Tamer KARTS
(24 second Video) Apply Tamer KARTSTamer KARTS stands for:
Knowledge
& Action for Results over Time in Society. To look and see,
to perceive and understand, and to decide and/or act. There is a unique Tamer KARTS for every event. It is intended for taming engagements in the three modes, namely: 1. Operational Democracy, 2. Strategic Democracy, and 3. Both. |
The three modes engage society, which contains, individuals, groups and institutions on the on hand, and an environment that could be stable and/or turbulent, on the other. Which requires Tamer KARTS while matching action in the form of: distinct strategies, distinct supporting capabilities, distinct investments, and distinct change processes. Coupled with deliberate and/or emergent leadership and management from strategic management of ourselves, each other, and institutions over time in society while interacting with turbulence. Therefore, an effective, efficient, and equitable future potential results happen by engaging all modes through matching action(s).
Answering the Questions
We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
Thomas Paine
1. Where we are now?
The Problem in Simple Terms
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You can't really know where you are going until you know where you have been.
Maya Angelou
Fire feeds on obstacles.
Marcus Aurelius
The Problem - Complex not Complicated
What, What, and What?
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What, What, and What?
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The problem in simple term is a gap between what we are capable of doing and what we are doing. That is producing fires (harm).
Multi-dimensional pendulum and ping pong interactions between and among individuals, groups and institutions. Materializing at the societal level as gaps (fragilities) of opposing directions in societal institutions, which are: economy, education, environment (natural), health, marriage & the family, law & order, information & media, politics, religion, technology, and maybe other. Resulting in HARM that is evident as inefficiencies, ineffectiveness, and inequities.
Debt of 8 USA Presidents
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The problem is so convoluted yet, almost 500 year ago Niccolò Machiavelli's statement remain point on.
…and what physicians say about consumptive illnesses is applicable here: that at the beginning, such an illness is easy to cure but difficult to diagnose; but as time passes, not having been recognized or treated at the outset, it becomes easy to diagnose but difficult to cure.
Niccolò Machiavelli
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Cubes in the Sky
Leave other people's mistakes where they lie.
Marcus Aurelius
Answering the Questions
2. Where do we need to go?
If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
Yogi Berra
Future Scenarios - Direction
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If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don't take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing."
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Intended Participants - Direction
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Strategic Democracy is intended for everyone to participate in an undertaking framed by (tentative; to be reviewed and discussed before finalization):
- Vision - "We the people", improving existing practice & creating an exceptional future.
- Mission - Helping each other look & see, perceive & understand, decide &/or act.
- Purpose - Insure the survival, growth, development, and success of USA.
- Aim - For everyone of "we the people" to become better in every way and have better interactions with other countries.
- Strategic Objective - Achieve effective, efficient, and equitable future.
- Operational Objective:
- Goal - A gauge to measure the degree of objective achievement (success/failure).
- Limitations - Resistance and/or Support to learning and practicing.
- Some Fundamental Questions:
- What can be done to better democracy?
- How to periodically and/or real-time, plan and implement in society over time for an exceptional future?
- Results - contribute to people practicing with "skin in the game" and materialized "antifragility" in five categories, as follows: practical applicability, further testing, what not to do, do not know, and backup with precautionary preparation.
- Critique - Strategic democracy addresses the future potential for survival, improvement, growth and development. It is based on leadership and management, focusing on strategic management. The core of the argument is that democracy is the best form of government yet, in the USA, it has not performed exceptionally. Therefore, strategic democracy was created to complement democracy through Tamer KARTS by leading and managing different aspects of societal institutions. Appreciation and/or criticism are welcome and encouraged, hence we will be dealing with many unknowns.
USA Vision - "We the people", improving existing practice & creating an exceptional future. For everyone of "we the people" to become better in every way and have better interactions with other countries.
USA Mission - Helping each other look & see, perceive & understand, decide &/or act. For insuring the survival, growth, development, and success of future undertakings.
USA Mission - Helping each other look & see, perceive & understand, decide &/or act. For insuring the survival, growth, development, and success of future undertakings.
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.
Mahatma Gandhi
Answering the Questions
3. How do we get there?
The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
Marcus Aurelius
In General
Engage stable &/or turbulent environment(s) by deliberate and/or emergent leadership and management focusing on strategic management of ourselves, each other, and institutions over time in society.
Specifically
By responding effectively, efficiently, and equitably; either sequentially (periodic), and/or concurrently (real-time), and/or mixture (balance) of the two in society. Whereas society contains:
I. Entities - that produce interactions between individuals, groups, and institutions (economy, education, environment (ecology), health, marriage & the family, law & order, information & media, politics, religion, technology, and maybe other).
II. Environment - stable and/or turbulent determined by:
1. Unpredictability:
III. Respond to the above by matching Vision, Mission, Objectives, Goals, Turbulence, Strategy, Capability, Change, and Investment determines Growth &/or Profit at scale over Time to the entities (#I above).
IV. After rebooting democracy into:
I. Entities - that produce interactions between individuals, groups, and institutions (economy, education, environment (ecology), health, marriage & the family, law & order, information & media, politics, religion, technology, and maybe other).
II. Environment - stable and/or turbulent determined by:
1. Unpredictability:
- Visibility of future, and
- Speed of change.
- Novelty of Events (familiarity), and
- Complexity, which contains: Scope (ranging from local to global) and decision making and/or judgements that are affected by interaction of the entities.
III. Respond to the above by matching Vision, Mission, Objectives, Goals, Turbulence, Strategy, Capability, Change, and Investment determines Growth &/or Profit at scale over Time to the entities (#I above).
IV. After rebooting democracy into:
- strategic democracy to address turbulent environment,
- operational democracy to address stable environments, and
- mixed to address any combination of the above two.
The Solution
Lead/Manage, Tamer KARTS, Strategic Democracy and Society*
* Society consists of entities and environmental turbulence
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Lead/Manage, Tamer KARTS, Strategic Democracy and Society*
* Society consists of entities and environmental turbulence
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Stopping
Things
Start Stopping Things
or
Subtract what does not Work
and/or
What not to do!
To look & see, perceive & understand, decide &/or act, by learning, applying, and critiquing Strategic Democracy & Tamer KARTS (Knowledge and Actions interactions for Results over Time in Society).
Tamer Tamer Salameh
Start Stopping Things
What is the difference and similarity between a dictatorship and a democracy.
A dictatorship forces you to be silent.
A democracy forces you to talk.
They are both similar in lacking results.
Unknow Author
What does not work? - What not to do!
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Stop the Noise
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Stop the Cubes in the Sky
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Stop the Universal Problem Solving Method
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Stop the Dance
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Answering the Questions
4. How to lead and manage the above?
It is not external events themselves that cause us distress, but the way in which we think about them...It is our attitudes and reactions that give us trouble. We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.
Epictetus from “The Enchiridion” written by Arrian
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Amelia Mary Earhart - on taking the first steps.
Components
Two complementary and concurrent parts constitute this work, namely:
Part I. Produce a book (in progress) entitled Strategic Democracy, with main emphasis on the Federal Government of the USA., Videos, and others, which does not concern this group. Status: scheduled for publication around the end of 2023. I am at the stage of inserting graphics, figures, and double-checking references.
Part II. Produce a Strategic Democracy monograph (this web page) Videos, and others, which concerns this group. That will be given to people that want to run for office in the USA. For that purpose, some points are emphasized, which are:
a. Strategic Democracy is only about the USA, participants from other countries are welcome. Other countries will require customization, yet participants from other countries can gain from the experience.
b- This is voluntary work to produce material. If you choose to participate there is no compensation. I am hoping for 1-3 people from every USA state (range of 50-150) to collect data and include it in this portion of the work. That could be adjusted depending on participants i.e., 1 person covering 2 states or more (to be configured/re-configured while engaging). I believe that a range between 25 – 250 people can produce what meets the requirements of data collection and to be interpreted and included in the monograph. Therefore, we have a range of outcomes between two extremes:
- Mediocre: Monograph with content from the book (#I above) only and minimal feedback.
- Outstanding: A monograph with content from the book (#1 above) and all the 50 states.
c- Everyone that participates will get training on research methodology; not search.
d- Everyone that participates will be acknowledged in the acknowledgement.
e- This work is for everyone
f- Respectfully, I reserve the right to include/exclude people.
g- While, setting the stage for development, growth, and benefit.
Please, feel free to critique.
Tamer Tamer Salameh
Part I. Produce a book (in progress) entitled Strategic Democracy, with main emphasis on the Federal Government of the USA., Videos, and others, which does not concern this group. Status: scheduled for publication around the end of 2023. I am at the stage of inserting graphics, figures, and double-checking references.
Part II. Produce a Strategic Democracy monograph (this web page) Videos, and others, which concerns this group. That will be given to people that want to run for office in the USA. For that purpose, some points are emphasized, which are:
a. Strategic Democracy is only about the USA, participants from other countries are welcome. Other countries will require customization, yet participants from other countries can gain from the experience.
b- This is voluntary work to produce material. If you choose to participate there is no compensation. I am hoping for 1-3 people from every USA state (range of 50-150) to collect data and include it in this portion of the work. That could be adjusted depending on participants i.e., 1 person covering 2 states or more (to be configured/re-configured while engaging). I believe that a range between 25 – 250 people can produce what meets the requirements of data collection and to be interpreted and included in the monograph. Therefore, we have a range of outcomes between two extremes:
- Mediocre: Monograph with content from the book (#I above) only and minimal feedback.
- Outstanding: A monograph with content from the book (#1 above) and all the 50 states.
c- Everyone that participates will get training on research methodology; not search.
d- Everyone that participates will be acknowledged in the acknowledgement.
e- This work is for everyone
f- Respectfully, I reserve the right to include/exclude people.
g- While, setting the stage for development, growth, and benefit.
Please, feel free to critique.
Tamer Tamer Salameh
Strategic Democracy Organization for Part II
While open for improvements, data/information will be collected and presented for action, using four primary tools, namely; Strategic Issues Management 2.0 for determining impact/urgency, Design Thinking for building projects, Real Time Delphi for validity and reliability, and Scrum for leading and managing developments. Results will be reported through InfoNarrative and InfoGraphics on this web page and throughout social media.
Part II Organizaton
This work builds on the interactions for addressing current and future issues. The interactions are between:
- Leadership and Management
- Tamer KARTS, which stands for Knowledge and Actions interactions for Results over Time in Society (KARTS), to produce best combination required for the response in society.
- Democracy containing three components, namely; Strategic Democracy, Operational Democracy, and a mixture of the two over time to respond to the future.
- Society:
- Transactions among the above to produce optionality in response.
Deliberate and/or emergent leadership and management; focusing on Strategic Democracy of ourselves, each other, and institutions over time in society while interacting with turbulence. Learn and apply Tamer KARTS: Knowledge, Action, Results over Time in Society.
Limitations
Since all models and tools have limits that work at certain times but fail at others e.g., Strategic Planning, SWOT, MBO, Blue Ocean Strategy, MBE, Issue Management, Managing by competitive edge, etc. Hence, a precautionary predisposition of this work is openness for invention, innovation, creativity, and critique (appreciation and/or criticism). Therefore, this work is constantly renewing through learning and practice. Thus, we are limited to the extent that we learn and use "Tamer KARTS" (acronym for Knowledge and Action interactions for Results over Time in Society) to better Democracy. Which contains Strategic Democracy, &/or Operating Democracy &/or a mixture (balance) of the two over Time.
Answering the Questions
5. Why not?
Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
"Life is" Poem by Mother Teresa
1. Do we want to keep doing what we are doing and expect different results?
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
Gautama Buddha
The Benefits
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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
From the book, "De Beneficiis" by Seneca
Actionable propositions will be provided to better the future as measured by effective, efficient, and equitability outcome(s). The thrust of the undertaking is to facilitate democracy in many ways, such as:
- If your nation is a democracy, then strategic democracy contributes to its survival, improvement, and growth and development.
- If your nation is not a democracy, then strategic democracy sets the stage for a future democracy.
Summary of Strategic Democracy
First, to do no harm.
Unknown origin; some attribute it to Hippocrates
How?
1- Problem(s) 2- Solution(s) 3- The Benefits
Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
Marcus Aurelius
1. The Problem - Fires resulting from GAPS.
2. The Solution - Learn & apply Strategic Democracy through Tamer KARTS to close the GAPS.
3. The Benefits - Closing the GAPS results in Effective, Efficient, and Equitable Future.
Strategic Democracy
is Intended for
Everyone!
To look & see, perceive & understand, decide &/or act.
is Intended for
Everyone!
To look & see, perceive & understand, decide &/or act.
Your Critique is Appreciated!
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Please, feel free to critique then click on submit when done.
Thank You!
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Please, feel free to critique then click on submit when done.
Thank You!
Warning
Please Note: The videos, text, graphics etc.. are part of my book which is entitled "Strategic Democracy". This content is for illustration, review, and discussion only. Given the dynamic nature of the environment; propositions change. Considerations for relationships and domain of applicability such as order (first, second order effect etc.), hierarchy, cause-effect, dependencies, multi-variants, trends, strength, weaknesses, opportunities, threats and other imperatives are implicit rather than explicit or not presented.
Therefore, practical applicability is not advised before preparation and practice (please view 4obo for preparation and practice).
Therefore, practical applicability is not advised before preparation and practice (please view 4obo for preparation and practice).
