The most efficient way to get the behavior you're looking for
is to find positive deviants
and give them a platform, a microphone and public praise.
--Seth Godin

I just read the story of the blowup of the Deepwater Horizon, and in my mind's eye I just see people jumping from a height. The same feeling comes to me that I had in the summer following 9/11, a pit of the stomach anger and despair. The people who against orders ran down the stairs from the twin towers were the ones who lived. The rules on that ( Read more... )

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It's kind of like killing them with kindness. Obedience as a Radical Act by Butler Shaffer (link below) is about one approach to government regulation: utter obedience. By refusing to break any laws (and hence to pay fines), and by over-responding to any government requirements of us as individuals, we may put a financial and red tape burden on ( Read more... )