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I wonder to what extent this should also apply to e.g., schools or churches, or even parenting. Conflict between kids? Make them decide together on a mutually

• DannyB2 7y ago
  Sometimes there is one right answer and other wrong answers. The sun always (at present) rises in the East. Not in the West. Also: not a compromise of somewhere in between. Can the manager marshal the resources to determine a correct scientific answer for questions that are not a matter of opinion? Or even recognize when such issues are present?
• NateEag 7y ago
  Below a certain age you can make them sit in a room without toys or electronic devices until they decide to be cooperative. It's not firing, but it can be motivational. I'm intrigued both by the original idea and your thought of applying it to parenting. I've found that most good management technique turns out to be relevant to parenting.
  • bjornsing 7y ago
    Where I am we call that false imprisonment and indict people for it...
• esfandia 7y ago
  It would be interesting to do the exercise for universities. At a very high level, universities* are incentivized to enroll and produce more and more graduates, to reduce the drop-out rate, and to retain a high quality of output. How should that apply at the level of a prof in terms of pass/fail decisions for their students? * at least universities who depend on a large extent on tuition money and government incentives to match said tuition.
• ncmncm 7y ago
  Negotiating good decisions is a skill kids and maybe most people don't have and generally are not taught.