At only 39 pages, it’s the accessible, user-friendly, Keep-It-Simple-Stupid rules of order system that anyone can navigate with about as much investment as learning to operate that TV remote, or installing the latest social media app on your smartphone. It keeps what works and throws out the rest. The DEMOCRACY 2.0 rule system is designed to fill that void, as a democratic system for everyday use by everyday people facing everyday realities.
#KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID ALTERNATIVE MAC#
I had been trying to sell Unix to Mac users, and it’s no wonder they hated it! Robert’s Rules is simply the wrong system for 99% of everyday democratic organizations. The reality is that for the democratic process to work, the process must be easy for everyone to understand and participate in, not just the elite few hacks with the time and aptitude to master a 716 page tome. Robert’s Rules is simply the wrong system for the vast majority of democratic organizations. At 716 pages, that’s just too cumbersome for 99% of the people who matter: the busy voting public who have lives and loves and places to be and things to do. Eventually I came to realize something that changed my view forever: no one would ever read it!
Because the reality is that no one reads it. If only they would actually learn the system, they would also come to recognize how good and wonderful it was. Sadly, almost never have I met anyone who had a good thing to say about it.Īgain and again I defended Bob’s Book, telling people it was misused, misunderstood, misapplied. For two decades I have defended it against nay-sayers and critics. It is an extremely well-tuned and refined operating system. I love Robert’s Rules of Order! There I said it. I am here to ask you to support my Kickstarter for DEMOCRACY 2.0, but first I need to make a confession. In fact I have written a rigorous mastery-level entrance exam on Robert’s Rules as a condition of entry into the National Association of Parliamentarians, of which I am a member. I have degrees in Philosophy, Psychology and History and I’m also a Parliamentarian, which means I am an expert in the infamous and much maligned Robert’s Rules of Order. Madson and I’m the author of DEMOCRACY 2.0: Rules of Order for Everyday Democrats.
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