A hugely interesting outcome of the Independence Referendum has been the growth in interest in questions that previously only attracted political geeks of the wide staring eyed variety.
The rise in political interest has allowed us to reimagine what kind of country should Scotland be, and how closely should it be adapted to its context, and a conscious seeking of models that might serve as inspiration to what Scotland could be, regardless of the referendum outcome.
3. What the HELL?
Why is this idiot talking
in Swedish?
!
Aren’t we supposed to
be talking about
Scotland?
!
Or Software..?
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4. DEADLY Warning
I don’t live in Scotland. I don’t have a vote in the
@MartinBurnsSV
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referendum.
!
I am using the referendum as a way in to talk about
change in organisations.
!
I am not - not - advocating voting either way.
It’s for Scotland to decide.
6. Things will
start getting better
when we start
treating them as
they are,
not as we’d
like them to be
@drunkcod
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9. A shadow is
haunting Software"
!
!
The shadow of
Agile"
10. It is high time that Agilists
should openly,
in the face of the whole world,"
!
"
publish their views,
their aims, their tendencies,
and meet this Spectre of Agile
11. “The struggle of
Class against Class
is a
Political
Struggle”
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12. Change
is a
Political
Process
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13. One of the penalties
for refusing to
participate in politics is
that you end up being
governed by your
inferiors
Plato
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14. We, gathered as the Scottish
Constitutional Convention,
do hereby acknowledge the
sovereign right of the
Scottish people to determine
the form of Government best
suited to their needs,
!
A Claim of Right for
Scotland, 1989
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Those puny little ants outnumber us
a hundred to one and if they ever
figure that out there goes our way of
life!
15. Subsidiarity!
!
The principle of
power operating
at the
lowest possible
level.
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Systems Thinking!
!
Left to themselves,
components become
selfish, competitive.
We cannot afford the
destructive effect.
A system must be
managed.
!
W Edwards Deming
16. 1.Power originates from and
resides in the team.
2.Consciously choose what
power to share with a higher
level system.
3.Do not make it a static
choice.
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26. The secret of
freedom lies in
educating people,
whereas the secret
of tyranny is in
keeping them
ignorant.”
Robespierre
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28. Incumbent power
structures own the means
of communication and
interpretation of events.
!
So they can spin events
any way they way.
Preaching to nobody, or to
the choir can be spun as
being out and engaging in
debate with the nation.
@MartinBurnsSV
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32. Nationalists themselves
no longer pretend that
the Yes campaign is
Creating ’us and
them’ culture
bubble feels
their property.
People, especially
Labour people, insist
noisily that their choice
of independence has
great but is
ineffective nothing to do with
in
nationalism. This is
affecting wider
fundamental.
change
Ian Bell,
Sunday Herald 7 Sept
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33. Nationalists
themselves no longer
pretend that the Yes
campaign is their
property.
People, especially
Labour people, insist
noisily that their choice
of independence has
nothing to do with
nationalism. This is
fundamental.
Ian Bell,
Sunday Herald 7 Sept
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Be more than
a campaign
!
Be more than
a community
!
Be a movement
34. @MartinBurnsSV
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Agile is Politics
!
Share power thoughtfully
!
Patience and confidence building work.
!
They will fight you, with fear, with
disengagement
Be engaged
Be a movement
35. ”We’re not
genetically
programmed
in Scotland to
make political
decisions”
Johann Lamont
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36.
37. Work as if
you are in the
early days of a
better nation.
Alasdair Gray
@MartinBurnsSV
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http://nationalcollective.com/manifesto/2014/08/andrew-tickell/
38. Work as if
you are in the
early days of a
better nation.
Alasdair Gray
@MartinBurnsSV
http://everydaylean.info