And we found voting to be a great way to run a democracy, but for a school…
Voting can lead to…
- Mediocrity by watering an idea down to it’s most palatable version.
- Involvement by gathering various views.
- New insights that would otherwise be kept secret.
- Politics and division.
- Slow decisions.
- Thoughtless decisions.
- Representative decisions.
It appears there are benefits and costs to using voting as a method of decision-making. There may be good times to use voting.
What are some viable alternatives?
- Consensus
- Delegation
- Collaboration
- Reverberation
The latter might be a new concept, so be assured we’ll discuss it soon.