Comments on: Maslow for government https://jamescousins.com/2011/03/maslow-for-government/ A (micro.)blog without a purpose. Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:47:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: James Cousins https://jamescousins.com/2011/03/maslow-for-government/#comment-2213 Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:47:00 +0000 http://jamescousins.com/?p=4704#comment-2213 In reply to Andrew Craig.

Good questions! Ascending order (5 is best). The argument, I suppose, would be that higher up the scale the notion of doing ‘good’ becomes irrelevant because you are enabling residents to decide what they want to do themselves.

As I said, Lord Wei’s wording could do with some refinement. He introduced it as something that he was “beta testing” which belies the geek in his thinking!

]]> By: Andrew Craig https://jamescousins.com/2011/03/maslow-for-government/#comment-2212 Wed, 09 Mar 2011 20:50:00 +0000 http://jamescousins.com/?p=4704#comment-2212 Thanks for flagging this up James. Definitely worth thinking about and devising something for local use I think. Does the rating scale work in ascending or descending order? Are their weightings? The big ambiguity in (1), of course, is “how many?” and “which?” citizens have something “good” (by whose definition?) done for them. That’s all food for thought. Perhaps our 3rd sector colleagues in Wandsworth would like to work on this one as something more productive than endless talk about “compacts”?

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